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A gifted musician’s decision to navigate society as a white man causes an internal debate about anti-blackness and the explicit nature of intent versus impact

James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harl

The protagonist of this fictional autobiography wrestles with race in America from the perspective of someone who learns that he is considered black but also th

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927) by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored

The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest