{"id":25708,"date":"2012-10-02T02:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T02:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25708"},"modified":"2012-10-02T02:34:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T02:34:12","slug":"cedric-dover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25708","title":{"rendered":"Cedric Dover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cedric Dover<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wasafiri<\/a>
\nVolume 27, Issue 2<\/a> (2012)
\npages 56-57
\nDOI: 10.1080\/02690055.2012.662322<\/a><\/p>\n

Cedric Dover<\/a> was born in Calcutta<\/a> in 1904. Dover’s mixed ancestry (English father, Indian mother) and his studies in zoology<\/a> led to a strong interest in ethnic minorities and their marginalisation. After his studies, he joined the Zoological Survey of India<\/a> as a temporary assistant entomologist<\/a>. He also wrote several scientific articles and edited the Eurasian magazine New Outlook<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dover settled in London In 1934 to continue his anthropological studies on issues of race. He published Half-Caste<\/em> in 1937, followed by Hell in the Sunshine<\/em> (1943). During the 1940s Dover contributed regularly to the BBC Indian Section of the Eastern Service alongside many other British-based South Asians. There he befriended George Orwell<\/a>, in 1947 he published Feathers in the Arrow: An Approach for Coloured Writers and Readers<\/em>. Dover moved to the United States in the same year and took up a range of visiting academic posts. He was a member of the faculty of Fisk University, as Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology. He also briefly lectured at the New School of Social Research, New York, and Howard University. Dover held a lifelong interest in African-American art, culture and literature and his influential book American Negro Art<\/em> was published in 1960. Dover returned to London in the late 1950s. He continued to lecture and write on minority issues and culture until his death in 1961.<\/p>\n

A Note on the Text<\/strong><\/p>\n

These poems were first published in Brown Phoenix<\/em> (London; College Press. 1950).<\/p>\n

Brown Phoenix<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am the brown phoenix
\nFused in the flames
\nOf the centuries’ greed.<\/p>\n

I am tomorrow’s man
\nOffering to share
\nLove, and the difficult quest,
\nIn the emerging plan.<\/p>\n

Do you see a dark man
\nWhose mind you shun,
\nWhose heart you never know,
\nUnable to understand
\nThat I am the golden bird
\nWith destiny clear?
\nFools cannot destroy me
\nWith arrogant fear.<\/p>\n

Listen brown man, black man,
\nYellow man, mongrel man,
\nAnd you white friend and comrade:
\nI am the brown phoenix\u2014I am you.<\/p>\n

\u2018There is my symbol for us all.\u2019<\/p>\n

For we are tomorrow’s men,
\nBut not you,
\nLittle pinkwhite man,
\nNot you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read or purchase the article\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cedric Dover Wasafiri Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012) pages 56-57 DOI: 10.1080\/02690055.2012.662322 Cedric Dover was born in Calcutta in 1904. Dover’s mixed ancestry (English father, Indian mother) and his studies in zoology led to a strong interest in ethnic minorities and their marginalisation. After his studies, he joined the Zoological Survey of India as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1245,125,8,1617],"tags":[8567,4652,2133],"class_list":["post-25708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-biography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","tag-anglo-indians","tag-cedric-dover","tag-wasafiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}