{"id":18973,"date":"2011-12-14T02:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T02:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18973"},"modified":"2015-03-25T22:05:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T22:05:19","slug":"jean-toomer-and-politics-session-465","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18973","title":{"rendered":"Jean Toomer and Politics (Session 465)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jean Toomer and Politics (Session 465)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Modern Language Association<\/a>
\n127th MLA Annual Convention<\/a>
\n2012-01-05 through 2012-01-08
\nWashington State Convention Center
\nSeattle, Washington<\/p>\n

A Special Session<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Saturday, 2012-01-07, 12:00-13:15 PST (Local Time)
\nRoom 6A, WSCC<\/p>\n

Presiding:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gino Pellegrini<\/strong><\/a>, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
\nPierce College, Woodland Hills, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barbara Clare Foley<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of English and American Studies
\nRutgers University, Newark<\/em><\/p>\n

Gino Pellegrini<\/strong>, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
\nPierce College, Woodland Hills, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Charles Scruggs<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of English
\nUniversity of Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n

Belinda Wheeler<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor\u00a0of English
\nPaine \u00a0College, Augusta, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This roundtable will focus on the 2011 edition of Jean Toomer’s Cane<\/em><\/a>, edited by Rudolph Byrd<\/a> and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.<\/a>, and in particular on the editors’ provocative new thesis that Toomer<\/a> was a Negro who chose to pass<\/a>\u00a0for white. Presenters will confront, examine, and discuss Byrd and Gates’s thesis.<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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