![]() ![]() The narrator still struggles with race, and he and his mother have a long talk about it, and she will never criticize his father even though he left her, married a white woman, and won’t acknowledge his son. The narrator devotes himself to learning music and reading, and has a short crush on a violinist. He sends his son a piano, and then never visits again. He does get to see his father one more time (he had occasionally visited them in Georgia), and the meeting is awkward. He confronts his mother about it, who tells him that she is African American and that his father is a white man of acclaim. When he stands, he is asked to sit down, and this is how he discovers that he is, in fact, an African American. While in school one day, the principal comes into the classroom and asks the white students to stand. He shows talent as a piano prodigy, and enjoys time with his white friend “Red.” He finds himself fascinated with the black students in his school, particularly “Shiny,” the very dark black boy who is the smartest kid in the class. Raised by a single mother in Georgia, they soon move to Connecticut and he starts going to public school there. The unnamed narrator of this novel starts out discussing his life from early childhood. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and ![]()
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