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  • Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution

    Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution University of Illinois Press July 2014 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in. 10 black & white photographs, 1 chart Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03844-0 Barbara Foley, Professor of English Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Political and personal repression and its effect on the work of a Harlem Renaissance…

  • Jean Toomer’s Washington and the Politics of Class: From “Blue Veins” to Seventh-Street Rebels

    Jean Toomer’s Washington and the Politics of Class: From “Blue Veins” to Seventh-Street Rebels Modern Fiction Studies Volume 42, Number 2 (Summber 1996) pages 289-321 Barbara Foley, Professor of English Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey Familiarity, in most people, indicates not a sentiment of comradeship, an emotion of brotherhood, but simply a lack of respect…

  • An Overview of the Event: Jean Toomer and Politics at the 2012 MLA

    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)

    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…

  • Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father”

    Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father” Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice 2009 46 pages ISSN: 1097-3087 Barbara Clare Foley, Professor of English Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey When Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance first appeared in 1995, it was…

  • Cane

    A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, “Cane” is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.