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A 6 page paper which examines the search for identity through music, learning, and
people in James Weldon Johnson’s work “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.”
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAexmn.rtf
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first a boy and then a man, who is from an interracial relationship. His mother was of African American heritage and his father was white. As he grows up he
never really considers the notion of race and not until he is perhaps in high school does he truly begin to comprehend what problems may arise because of his mixed
heritage. In the following paper we examine his journey of identity as it involves these realities, discussing the role of music, learning, and people in that journey. The paper also
discusses, throughout the examination, how his story is essentially a story of all men as they struggle to know who they are. Music Music is one of the
most important, and most consistent, elements in the narrators life. He learns, at an early age, that he has a gift for playing the piano. Even before he can read
music he knows that he is creative and naturally inclined to the art and nature of music itself. Throughout the entire text of the story we see the narrator coming
to music over and over for a variety of expressive reasons, most of which are clearly linked to his identity. In this story we have the narrator come and
go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For example, he finds himself fascinated with
ragtime music and immerses himself in the beauty of it. For the narrator the music is not necessarily related to racial realities at all. The narrator sees music as simply
an expression of emotions and passions and only through his interactions with other people does he see that music is often defined into race. This is a very shocking
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