Filters
-
Thema
-
Productvorm
-
Taal
-
Prijs
Resultaten voor 'james weldon johnson'
-
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Cram Edition)
€ 19,50 -
Fifty Years, & Other Poems (Cram Edition)
€ 21,95 -
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson's trailblazing novel on passing and racial ambiguity, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line. A coming-of-age tale about a young biracial man whose light skin allows him to "pass' for white at the turn of 20th century America. From a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, the unnamed narrator describes his remarkable journey through the strata of Black and white society, rubbing elbows with European aristocrats and ragtime musicians alike. Yet through it all, he struggles to forge an identity in a world that tells him he doesn't belong. Ultimately, he discovers that the practice of passing brings little more than a ruinous self-denial.
€ 11,00 -
The Book of American Negro Spirituals
€ 19,50 -
The Book of American Negro Spirituals
€ 34,50 -
God's Trombones
€ 16,50 -
God's Trombones
Seven Negro Sermons in Verse€ 16,50 -
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
€ 24,95 -
The Book of American Negro Poetry
€ 21,95 -
Self-Determining Haiti
Self-Determining Haiti is James Weldon Johnson's incisive indictment of the United States occupation of Haiti and a forceful defense of Haitian sovereignty. Drawing on on-the-ground inquiry, official documents, and interviews, Johnson exposes military coercion, financial control, censorship, forced labor, and racialized paternalism that accompanied American rule after 1915. Its style is at once journalistic and juridical: lucid, evidentiary, morally urgent, yet restrained by a lawyerly command of facts. In the literary and political context of early twentieth-century anti-imperial writing, it belongs beside the documentary prose of the NAACP and the emerging Black internationalism of the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson's authority arose from an unusually wide public career. A novelist, poet, songwriter, educator, diplomat, and NAACP executive, he had served in U.S. consular posts in Latin America and understood both the language of American liberal diplomacy and its contradictions. His activism against lynching and disfranchisement sharpened his recognition that the occupation of Haiti was not an aberration but an overseas extension of Jim Crow. This book is essential for readers interested in Caribbean history, U.S. empire, African American political thought, and documentary protest literature. Concise but devastating, it remains a model of how rigorous reportage can become an argument for freedom.
€ 8,30 -
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Selected Poems€ 19,95 -
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Johnson, the first black executive of the NAACP and an active civil-rights campaigner, provides an autobiographical account of living as a white man, although by heritage and experience he is an African American. He is also the author of "God's Trombones" and "Along This Way".
€ 14,50