Author: James Weldon Johnson

First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standards - and ...

A gifted musicians decision to navigate society as a white man causes an internal debate about anti-blackness and the explicit nature of intent ver...

The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) is an anthology by James Weldon Johnson. Alongside some of his own poems, Johnson includes the work of suc...

Masked in the tradition of the literary confession as practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this autobiography purports to be ...

James Weldon Johnsons The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate relationship between race...