{"product_id":"autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man","title":"Autobiography Of An Ex Colored Man","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrated 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 colour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312764461438,"sku":"NW9781841594064","price":12.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781841594064.jpg?v=1778589522","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}