...to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead. All the while J understood that it was not discouragement or fear or search for a...For, certainly the law would restrain and punish the malicious burning alive of animals. So once again I found myself gazing at the towers of New York and...

...from (irloroon olispnnc. li wliirli ihr author (1rs almost like a llry-p tersr. It drsrrihes ei feel "Shame at being identified with a people that could with impunity be treated worse »han animáis. For certainly the law would restrain and punish the malicious burning alive of animals."...

...emphasise the arbitrariness of the 'color line' and the narrative charts his attempts to 'identify] with a people that could with impunity be treated worse than animals'. Electing finally to pass as white after witnessing an horrific lynching, the narrator's sense of inner...

...the story, the narrator is robbed of his hope and left bewildered, humiliated, and embittered by an "unbearable shame." "Shame at being identified with...could with impunity be treated worse than animals" becomes the narrator's ultimate justification for returning to New York and irrevocably crossing the...

...the man he has watched burn to death, the narrator is strangely ashamed of the spectacle, and ashamed 'at being identified with a people that could with...For certainly the law would restrain and punish the malicious burning alive of animals' (p. 139). Indeed, even in voicing his 'understanding' of terrorized...

...to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead. All the while I understood that it was not discouragement or fear or search for a...For certainly the law would restrain and punish the malicious burning alive of animals. So once again I found myself gazing at the towers of New York and...

...search for a larger Held of action or opportunity that was driving me out of the Negro race. 1 knew mat it was shame, unbearable shame. Shame at being identified...For certainly the law would restrain and punish the malicious burning of animals. (190-91) The Ex -Coloured Man ultimately cannot stand being "identified...

...of a black identification that brings too much pain to be tolerated. All the while I understood that it was not discouragement or fear or search for a...could with impunity be treated worse than animals. — lohnson. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, p. 191 The oppressive treatment of African-Americans...

...of a black identification that brings too much pain to be tolerated. All the while I understood that it was not discouragement or fear or search for a...could with impunity be treated worse than animals. — Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man The oppressive treatment of African Americans...

...not at the fact of being associated, by a shared humanity, with the perpetrators of the lynching but at being identified "with a people that could with impunity be treated worse than animals" (139), the lynching scene offers the Ex-Colored Man no feasible means of self-definition except in...