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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about by the race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro, but shows in a dispassionate, though sympathetic, manner conditions as they actually exist between the whites and blacks to-day. Special pleas have already been made for and against the Negro in hundreds of books, but in these books either his virtues or his vices have been exaggerated. This is because writers, in nearly every instance, have treated the colored American as a whole; each has taken some one group of the race to prove his case. Not before has a composite and proportionate presentation of the entire race, embracing all of its various groups and elements, showing their relations with each other and to the whites, been made. It is very likely that the Negroes of the United States have a fairly correct idea of what the white people of the country think of them, for that opinion has for a long time been and is still being constantly stated; but they are themselves more or less a sphinx to the whites. It is curiously interesting and even vitally important to know what are the thoughts of ten millions of them concerning the people among whom they live. In these pages it is as though a veil had been drawn aside: the reader is given a view of the inner life of the Negro in America, is initiated into the "freemasonry," as it were, of the race.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 7, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781546653097 |
Publishers | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 122 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 7 mm · 172 g |
Language | English |
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