The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

LibriVox recording of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson. Read in English by James K. White Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man , was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written as a memoir of an unnamed biracial narrator who grew up in the South during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras. It is a story in which the narrator relates how as a young boy he initially assumed that he was white, and how his notions of racial identity were suddenly turned upside down one day—how from that moment on he was