SOURCE: “Jean Toomer's Washington and the Politics of Class: From ‘Blue Veins’ to Seventh-Street Rebels,” in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2, Summer, 1996, pp. 289-321.
In the following essay, Foley probes Toomer's racial and class consciousness as expressed in the Washington, D. C. section of Cane.
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