Yearbook of English Studies, January 1st, 2004
Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. by Genevieve Fabre and MICHEL FEITH. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press. 2001. xii + 235 pp. $52 (pbk $22). ISBN: 0-8135-2845-3 (pbk 0-8135-2846-1).
Caucasian in appearance, 'Negro' in American law, in practice Jean Toomer considered himself to be a member of a 'new race'. Although the literati of the 1920s repeatedly tried to haul him aboard Harlem's 'New Negro' bandwagon, Toomer preferred to disavow the connection and, instead, spent most of his adult life searching for and advocating 'a position above the hypnotic divisions...
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