Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Jean Toomer
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Jean Toomer: Fugitive American Literature Volume 47, Number 1 (March, 1975) page 84-96 Charles Scruggs, Professor of English University of Arizona As a young boy, Jean Toomer attended a dinner party during which someone asked his famous grandfather, P. B. S. Pinchback, if he indeed had “colored” blood. The light-skinned former lieutenant governor of Louisiana…
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Jean Toomer and American Racial Discourse Texas Studies in Literature and Language Volume 35, Number 2, Anxieties of Identity in American Writing (Summer 1993) pages 226-250 George Hutchinson, Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies; Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Adjunct Professor of American Studies Indiana University, Bloomington The culture which will…
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To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance University Press of Mississippi 1999 202 pages Cloth: 157806130X (9781578061303) Paper: 1578061318 (9781578061310) Jon Woodson, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. Jean Toomer’s adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of…
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From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May 2010 Suzanne M. Lynch My study, entitled From Exiles to Transcendences focuses on five authors: Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin,…
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Jean Toomer and the Politics and Poetics of National Identity Contributions in Black Studies A Journal of African and Afro-American Studies Volume 7, Number 1 (1985-01-01) Article 3 24 pages Onita Estes-Hicks State University of New York, Old Westbury Jean Toomer’s place in thew world of letters rests on Cane, the author’s profound statement on…
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The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance Ashgate Publishing November 2009 232 pages Includes 5 b&w illustrations Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-6198-6 Rachel Farebrother, Lecturer in American Studies University of Swansea Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility…
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Meridians: Mapping Metaphors of Mixed Race Indentity University of Florida August 2004 238 pages Shane Willow Trudell A dissertation presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy Although mixed race identity traditionally has been equated with conflict, the conflict is not…
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Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen University of Iowa Press 1993 255 pages, 10 photos Paper 0-87745-437-X, 978-0-87745-437-3 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen,…