The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

Questions About The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

by James Weldon Johnson

Reader Q&A

To ask other readers questions about The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, please sign up.

Answered Questions (1)

Don't you find his summation of Race in America holding true, even still, 100 years later?

sonya 100%. Things have gotten better to some extent, but everything this book addresses still holds true in new ways, today.

Unanswered Questions (4)

With Johnson living in America, being an intelligent person with survival instincts and witnessing a black man burned alive, what other options were open to him or his children?

With survival being the primary instinct what other choices did Johnson have after watching a man burned alive?

هل قرأ ايا منكم ياسادة هذا الكتاب باللغة العربية?

Could Johnson's text present the single male millionaire, drifting about the globe like a mist in the company of another single male, as a signifier of the lasting separation of male and female spheres, or possibly a subtle allusion to closeted homo- or bisexuality?

About Goodreads Q&A

Ask and answer questions about books!

You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.

See Featured Authors Answering Questions