Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Born to a Black mother and a white father he barely knows, the narrator grows up not realizing he's seen as Black until a schoolteacher points it out in front of the class. What follows is a life spent moving between worlds - a gifted ragtime pianist in the clubs of New York, a witness to a lynching in the Deep South that changes everything, and eventually a man who chooses to disappear into white...