James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

A selective list of open access internet articles for James Weldon Johnson, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites

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Literary criticism

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

Andrade, Heather Russell "Revising critical judgments of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man." African American Review, Summer 2006

Barnhart, Bruce. Chronopolitics and race, rag-time and symphonic time in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. African American Review, Fall 2006

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 U of Illinois P

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

Nowlin, Michael. "James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan and the Kingdom of American Culture." African American Review, Fall 2005

Sheehy, John. The Mirror and the Veil: The Passing Novel and the Quest for American Racial Identity. African American Review, Fall 1999

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 Donna Campbell

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