Table of Contents:
  • Contemporary evaluations. "An ex-colored man" [review of The autobiography of an ex-colored man] / Anonymous [New York Times]
  • [Review of The autobiography of an ex-colored man] / [Jessie Fauset]
  • American character in American fiction ; Introduction [to Fifty years and other poems] / Brander Matthews
  • Introduction [to The autobiography of an ex-colored man] / Carl Van Vechten
  • The autobiography of an ex-colored man. A forgotten prototype : "The autobiography of an ex-colored man" and "Invisible man" / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
  • Lost in a quest : James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Robert B. Stepto
  • Irony and symbolic action in James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.
  • Privilege and evasion in The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Valerie Smith
  • Irony and subversion in James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Roxanna Pisiak
  • Passing as autobiography : James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Donald C. Goellnicht
  • General assessments. Black racial spirit : an analysis of James Weldon Johnson's critical perspective / Richard A. Carroll
  • "My inner life is mine" [James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the NAACP] / Eugene levy
  • Feminity and the Harlem experience : a note on James Weldon Johnson / Susan J. Koprince
  • The composition of James Weldon Johnson's "Fifty years" / Robert E. Fleming
  • H.L. Mencken and James Weldon Johnson : two men who helped shape a Renaissance / Charles Scruggs
  • The two worlds of James Weldon Johnson / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
  • "Jim Crowed" in their own countries : James Weldon Johnson's New York Age essays on colonialism during the Wilson years / Lawrence J. Oliver
  • James Weldon Johnson's Along this way : text and subtext / Robert E. Fleming
  • Unmaking blackness : the ex-colored men of Charles W. Chesnutt and James Weldon Johnson / SallyAnn H. Ferguson.