"A Curious Study": The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, Pedagogy, and the Post-Plantation Imagination.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY of an Ex-Colored Man, The (Book : Johnson); JOHNSON, James Weldon, 1871-1938; AFRICAN American fiction; MILLIONAIRES; WHITE people; SELF in literature; THEORY of knowledge in literature; UNITED States education system; THEMES in literature; EDUCATION & society; LITERARY criticism; AMERICAN fiction

A literary criticism is presented of the 1912 American fictional book "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man," James Weldon Johnson. The book's depiction of a fictitious American white millionaire known as the Ex-Coloured Man, including the character's whiteness and lack of self-knowledge, is discussed. The book's portrayal of the relationship between U.S. education and belonging is also discussed.