His mother works very hard to support them and their household. But those concerns fell to the wayside as he and his mother left their small town and began making their way north, stopping off in New York before settling in New England. Yet given how he was described I thought it might be some other male relative, like a grandfather or something along those lines. At first, I assumed that maybe this was his dad. At the beginning of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, the narrator is living with his mother in a small town in the South.Ī man comes about once a week or so to visit them and shows some degree of affection for him though it’s unclear who this man is.
Yet the story continues for quite some time with bits and pieces that are missing which left me with questions. The early part of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man where the narrator discusses his childhood was pretty sweet because it was a very innocent story about boyhood. I was surprised to find that I enjoyed the writing style as there’s quite a bit of wit and sarcasm. Though I was concerned that it might be a bit dry and boring. Sometimes not knowing what to expect when beginning a book can be positive because you don’t have any preconceived notions or heightened expectations.
I decided to read it after writing a Black History profile about Johnson. Media YouTube Videoīefore picking up The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man I had heard the title in passing but knew nothing at all about the book. As a young man he sets out on his own and travels to different parts of America and later Europe, recounting his experiences in Black and White society along the way. He tells of being born in the South and growing up in Connecticut where he learns that he is a very light-skinned biracial boy who some assume is White. The story is told in the first-person though the narrator remains unnamed and is never described physically. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a biracial man looking back over his life.
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