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by: Nellie Y. McKay
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780807841716
ISBN: 0807841714
Label: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Manufacturer: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Number Of Pages: 262
Publication Date: 1987-02
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Sales Rank: 2764585
Studio: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Thoughtful and balanced
Nellie McKay's study of Jean Toomer is a careful and contexturalized assessment of Toomer and his writings. She resists the tendency in contemporary racial politics to applaud uncritically Toomer's assertions that he was not African American. As is quite obvious to anyone who has studied the 1920s in America, how one looked, as in skin color, was not the only factor that defined one's race; race was imposed brutally by a white institutional system using a variety of criteria; and it was also chosen ... Read More
Rating:  - Toomer was NOT "African American" but European American
Readers who call Jean Toomer "black" or "African American" are totally in error. He rejected that racist "one drop" classification and deserves praise and admiration for doing so. Toomer's parents and grandparents were not "black middle class" but looked whiter than many Americans who call themselves "white."Passing for Who You Really Are
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