Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Jean Toomer
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Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 Edwin Mellen Press 2002 248 pages ISBN 10: 0-7734-7088-3; ISBN 13: 978-0-7734-7088-0 John Chandler Griffin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of South Carolina, Lancaster This comprehensive biography of writer Jean Toomer, known as the Herald of the Harlem Renaissance, uses previously untapped sources, including lengthy meetings with Toomer’s widow…
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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,…
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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…
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‘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…
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An extraordinary literary friendship, preserved in letters
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“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…
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Searching for a new soul in Harlem Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2012-02-27 Annelise Heinz, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History Stanford University Allyson Hobbs on passing and racial ambiguity during the Harlem Renaissance Harlem in the 1920s is known for its creative outpouring of art, music, and literature.…
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Passing Fancies: Color, much more than race, dominated the fiction of the Harlem Renaissance The Wall Street Journal 2011-09-03 James Campbell Harlem Renaissance Novels, Edited by Rafia Zafar, Library of America, 1,715 pages Harlem in the autumn of 1924 offered a “foretaste of paradise,” according to the novelist Arna Bontemps. He was recalling the dawn…
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Ambiguity in Jean Toomer’s Cane Berkely Undergraduate Journal Volume 24, Issue 3 (2011) pages 79-92 Amanda Licato Department of English ’13 University of California, Berekely When Jean Toomer’s modernist experimental novel Cane was published in 1923, both he and the text were taken to be representative voices of African American life, even though Toomer explicitly…