Month: May 2012

  • Children of the banished dragon The Daily Post Liverpool, England 2006-01-23 Lew Baxter Lew Baxter reports on a shameful episode after World War II when Chinese sailors who had risked their lives for Britain were deported back to China, many leaving behind distraught British wives and children. Even 60 years later, tears and trauma trail…

  • Eurasians: The First British Born Chinese? DimSum: The British Chinese community website 2007-06-30 Yvonne Foley I am a Eurasian.  I am the daughter of an English mother and a Shanghai father.  In traditional Chinese culture, having a Chinese father, I am regarded as being Chinese. I am part of a community that has been around…

  • Mixed heritage voices – Multiple identities, varied experiences, diverse views British Association for Adoption & Fostering Woburn House Conference Centre 20 Tavistock Square London WC1H 9HQ 2012-11-29, 10:00-16:00Z One in ten people in the UK define themselves as mixed heritage, and it seems that young people think it is ‘cool’ to be ‘mixed’. But what…

  • Jean Toomer, Mulatto and Modernist: the Fused Race and Fused Form of Cane Oklahoma State University May 1997 76 pages Rhonda Lea McClellan Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Preface In the fall of 1993,…

  • Is the Tanning of America Only Skin Deep? The Huffington Post 2012-05-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University It’s official: The United States is officially “tan.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s first population estimate by age, race, ethnicity, and sex since the 2010 Census, “50.4 percent of our nation’s population younger than age…

  • To “Flash White Light from Ebony”: The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer’s Cane Twentieth Century Literature Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2000) pages 1-19 Catherine Gunther Kodat, Professor of English and American Studies Hamilton College, Clinton, New York The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation–and which…

  • ‘Brother Mine’ highlights unique relationships The Oakland Post: Oakland University’s Independent Newspaper Rochester, Michigan 2011-02-08 Ryan Hegedus Reading other peoples’ mail can land you in serious trouble with the government.   Or, in the case of Dr. Kathleen Pfeiffer, it can land you a book deal.   Pfeiffer, an associate professor of English at Oakland…

  • An extraordinary literary friendship, preserved in letters

  • When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature University of Illinois Press 2003 328 pages 6 x 9 in. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02819-9 Edited by: Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African-Native American descent An exploration of the literature, history,…

  • “Cane”, Race, and “Neither/Norism” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 32, Number 2 (Spring, 2000) pages 90-101 Charles Harmon “My racial composition and my position in the world are realities which I alone may determine.” —Jean Toomer to Horace Liveright Of all people, Jean Toomer wrote Cane. For a long time, this fact has made critics…