Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

"e;I buried my past... but at what cost to my soul?"e;Our narrator is a man of dual heritage gifted, light-skinned, and acutely observant. Born into a world defined by the "e;color line,"e; he possesses the unique and dangerous ability to move between the Black and White worlds. From the smoking rooms of high-society New York to the gambling dens of the South, and from the birth of Ragtime to the ...