Bell, Bernard W., The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
In this history of African American novels from the antebellum period through the 1970s, Bell discusses Johnson as an "Old Guard" novelist along with W. E. B. Du Bois. His analysis of the The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man focuses on the novel as an example of psychological determinism.
Johnson, James Weldon, Black Manhattan, 1930, reprint, Atheneum, 1968.
Johnson traces the history of Harlem from the seventeenth century to the 1930s. His analysis of African American theater and music in the first decades of the twentieth century shed light both on his own career in musical theater and on the clubs frequented by the narrator of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man.
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