A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on James Weldon Johnson, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Fabi, M. Giulia. "The Mark Within: Parody in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" A chapter from Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel (Univ. of Illinois) The entire book is open access, from Univ. of Ill. Press
Fleming, Robert E. Review of The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Vol. 1, The New York Age Editorials: 1914-1923, reviewed in African American Review, Summer, 1997
Goellnicht, Donald C. "Passing as autobiography: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man," in African American Review, Spring, 1996
Morgan, Thomas L. "The city as refuge: constructing urban blackness in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods and James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," African American Review, Summer, 2004
Sheehy, John. The Mirror and the Veil: The Passing Novel and the Quest for American Racial Identity. African American Review, Fall, 1999
Strategies for teaching James Weldon Johnson, from Heath
A profile of James Weldon Johnson from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library
A brief introduction to James Weldon Johnson from the Academy of American Poets
A list of selected critical works on James Weldon Johnson from Dr. Paul Reuben's PAL web site
A secondary bibliography for James Weldon Johnson from the Bibliography Committee of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Selective secondary reading list for The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, from Dr. Donna Campbell
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