Lives Of Jean Toomer

A Hunger For Wholeness

BY CYNTHIA EARL-KERMAN, ET AL

Brief Description:
A great book focusing on a great man who had the courage to reject society's efforts to impose a 'racial' identity on him. He steadfastly refused to be labeled and considered classification the nemesis of mankind, a reflection of intellectual empty-headedness. "Thus Toomer propounded the rather unpopular view that the racial issue in America would be resolved only when white America could accept the fact that its racial 'purity' was a myth, that indeed its racial isolation produced blandness and lack of character. On the other hand, racial purity among blacks was just as much a myth....Race, he said, was a fictional construct, of no use for understanding people."

Louisiana State Univ. Press 1989 448 PP. Paper

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