Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank by Kathleen Pfeiffer (review) Callaloo Volume 37, Number 3, Summer 2014 pages 735-739 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2014.0094 L. Lamar Wilson Jean Toomer’s Cane remains one of the most enigmatic works that emerged during the last century. In the past three decades, critics have probed auto/biography, psychoanalysis, sociopolitical…
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Individualism, Success, and American Identity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man African American Review Volume 30, Number 3 (Autumn, 1996) pages 403-419 Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan The title character in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man embodies the paradox of race and color because he is…
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A controversial but appealing, amusing, and vivacious celebration of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s
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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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Race Passing and American Individualism University of Massachusetts Press February 2003 176 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-55849-377-8 (Print on Demand) Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan A literary study of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture In the literature of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, black characters who pass for…