Tag: Gino Michael Pellegrini

  • An Overview of the Event: Jean Toomer and Politics at the 2012 MLA Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Amalgamation, Race, Class & Solidarity 2012-01-12 Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This is my general overview of the “Jean Toomer and Politics” special session roundtable at the 2012 MLA Annual Convention.…

  • Jean Toomer and Politics (Session 465) Modern Language Association 127th MLA Annual Convention 2012-01-05 through 2012-01-08 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washington A Special Session Saturday, 2012-01-07, 12:00-13:15 PST (Local Time) Room 6A, WSCC Presiding: Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Speakers: Barbara Clare Foley, Professor of English and…

  • American Mixed-Race Literature: Cultural History, Precursors, Identities, and Forms of Expression Purdue University 2004 116 pages Publication Number: AAT 3166693 ISBN: 9780542022999 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjust Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This dissertation focuses on recent instances of mixed race literature in American culture such as Danzy Senna’s novel Caucasia, Rebecca…

  • Jean Toomer and Cane: “Mixed-Blood” Impossibilities Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 64, Number 4, Winter 2008 E-ISSN: 1558-9595, Print ISSN: 0004-1610 DOI: 10.1353/arq.0.0025 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Even though Jean Toomer was black and white, his fascination with miscegenation in…

  • Multiracial Identity in the Post-Civil Rights Era Social Identities Volume 11, Issue 5 (September 2005) pages 531-549 DOI: 10.1080/13504630500408164 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This article, which utilizes personal experience as well as other perspectives and theories on race and mixed race, suggests that multiracial identity is…