{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-9781614275275","title":"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man","description":"2013 Reprint of 1912 Edition. Full facsimile of the original text, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. \"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man\" by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional telling of the story of a young biracial man, referred to only as the \"Ex-Colored Man\", living in post Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Ex-Colored Man was forced to choose between embracing his black heritage and culture by expressing himself through the African-American musical genre ragtime, or by \"passing\" and living obscurely as a mediocre middle-class white man. Though the title suggests otherwise, the book is not an autobiography but a novel. However, the book is based on the lives of people Johnson knew and from events in his own life. Johnson's text is an example of a \"roman   clef.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Johnson, James Weldon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Martino Fine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781614275275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d","brand":"James Weldon Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32749534085195,"sku":"9781614275275","price":5.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_654cd5a8-e025-4bbc-a3cd-6a61dd8f0431.jpg?v=1597791102","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-9781614275275","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}