Color - Ein amerikanisches Leben

Ist man auch dann ein Schwarzer, wenn es niemand sehen kann? In einem tief gespaltenen Land macht sich ein hellhäutiger Afroamerikaner auf die Suche nach seiner Identität.

Die fiktive Autobiografie "Color - Ein amerikanisches Leben" wurde 1912 zunächst anonym veröffentlicht. Darin beschreibt der namenlose Ich-Erzähler die Stationen seines bewegten Lebens. Die Suche nach Zugehörigkeit und Heimat treibt ihn einmal quer durch die USA, nach Europa und wieder zurück, von der Zigarrenfabrik über die Spielhölle in den Ragtime-Club, von der Pariser Oper über Berliner Konzerthäuser bis zu einem Treffen evangelikaler Christen in den Südstaaten. Zwei Morde erweisen sich als schicksalsentscheidend ...

Das Buch liest sich wie eine Mischung aus Coming-of-Age-Roman und Road Novel. Schnörkellos, ehrlich und zugleich unterhaltsam vermittelt es einen Einblick in das diverse Leben der schwarzen Bevölkerung und einen Eindruck der amerikanischen Gesellschaft um 1900.

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