Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Introduction + Context
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Preface Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Themes
All Themes Racism and the Color Line Collective Progress and Individual Achievement Music, Emotion, and American Culture Secrecy, Purity, and Origins
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Characters
All Characters The Narrator or “Ex-Colored Man” The Narrator’s Mother The Narrator’s Father  “Shiny” The Millionaire The Narrator’s Wife / The Singer The Music Teacher The Violinist The Second Pullman Porter The Washington Physician John Brown “Singing Johnson”
Terms
All Terms Chopin Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe “Toussaint L’Ouverture” (Lecture by Wendell Phillips) Beethoven’s “Sonata Pathétique” Atlanta University Pullman Porters Cuban rebels Cake-Walk Uncle Remus Stories Fisk Jubilee Songs Ragtime Minstrel “Slumming” “Darky” Havre Faust Grand Opera Jim Crow Howard University W.E.B. Du Bois Zion Lynching Eden Musée Fauré’s 13th Nocturne Hampton Institute Carnegie Hall Booker T. Washington
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All Symbols Clothing and Jewelry
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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

by

James Weldon Johnson

Uncle Remus Stories Term Analysis

A collection of African-American folktales published by Joel Chandler Harris and presented as parables told by the fictional elder Uncle Remus.
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Uncle Remus Stories Term Timeline in Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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Chapter 5
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Music, Emotion, and American Culture Theme Icon
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...advanced theory that [black people] are an absolutely inferior race.” The other three are the Uncle Remus Stories , Jubilee songs, and ragtime, which was so popular in Europe that Parisians simply called... (full context)
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