{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-introduction-by-gregory-pardlo-hardcover","title":"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: Introduction by Gregory Pardlo - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Weldon Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGregory Pardlo\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of the groundbreaking classic novel of the Black experience in America that is still remarkably relevant more than a century later.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standards--and double consciousness--experienced by Black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man\u003c\/i\u003e became a pioneering document of African-American culture and an eloquent model for later novelists ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to \"pass\" for white, the novel describes a journey through the strata of Black society at the turn of the century--from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel aristocrats to the musicians who hammered out the rhythms of ragtime. \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man\u003c\/i\u003e is a complex and moving examination of the question of race and an unsparing look at what it meant to forge an identity as a man in a culture that recognized nothing but color. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938) was a novelist, poet, lawyer, editor, ethnomusicologist, and coauthor of the hymn \"Lift Every Voice and Sing,\" which is informally known as the Black national anthem. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia University and was the first Black lawyer admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University. His other books include an autobiography, \u003ci\u003eAlong This Way\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGod's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e About the Introducer: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e GREGORY PARDLO is the author of \u003ci\u003eAir Traffic\u003c\/i\u003e and of \u003ci\u003eDigest\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Pardlo's poems and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Nation, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e among others, and he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is Poetry Editor of \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e and a visiting associate professor at New York University Abu Dhabi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.14 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766153773344,"sku":"9780593535561","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4c1230b2076bec55594ab60e973f8273.webp?v=1780286758","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-introduction-by-gregory-pardlo-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}