Jean Toomer’s Conflicted Racial Identity
7th February 2011
Rudolph P. Byrd is a professor of African-American studies and founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a professor of African and African American studies and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.
And both are, evidently, explicit racists, subscribing to the ‘one drop of blood’ theory.