Tag: Kimberly A. Barrett

  • Jean Toomer’s Conflicted Racial Identity [Reader Responses] The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-03-06 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University, Washington, D. C. To the Editor: Congratulations to Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates Jr. for concluding that Jean Toomer was a Negro who decided to pass for white—the same conclusion I made…