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2248134The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Manhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1869321/367b08fc-47cd-4563-8434-fcb58b582231.jpg?v=638342096539270000175213MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A 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.</strong></p><p>First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standardsand double consciousnessexperienced by Black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, <em>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</em> 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.</p><p>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 centuryfrom 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. <em>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</em> 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.</p><p>Everymans 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 authors life and times.</p>...2078494The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man175213https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1869321/367b08fc-47cd-4563-8434-fcb58b582231.jpg?v=638342096539270000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239780593469613_W3siaWQiOiIxOWVkYjg1MC0wMTE5LTRkNWQtYTU1Yi1iN2E2N2Q3OWU1NDYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIxMywiZGlzY291bnQiOjM4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE3NSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDlUMDQ6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780593469613_<p><strong>A repackaged edition of the groundbreaking classic novel of the Black experience in America, with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.</strong></p><p>First published anonymously in 1912, this novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standardand double consciousnessthat ruled the lives of Black people in America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, <em>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</em> emerged as a groundbreaking document of African-American culture and an eloquent model for later novelists ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.</p><p>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 centuryfrom 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. <em>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</em> 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. VINTAGE CLASSICS.</p>...(*_*)9780593469613_<p><strong>A 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.</strong></p><p>First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standardsand double consciousnessexperienced by Black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, <em>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</em> 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.</p><p>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 centuryfrom 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. <em>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</em> 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.</p><p>Everymans 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 authors life and times.</p>...9780593469613_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_cc5d245d-14a8-3055-9f82-8146206a0599_9780593469613;9780593469613_9780593469613James WeldonInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-c3080fa5-d805-4589-8bef-4705d65f2b70.epub2023-02-21T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group