“I am of no particular race. I am of the human race, a man at large in…” — Jean Toomer

“I am of no particular race. I am of the human race, a man at large in the human world, preparing a new race.”

Rejecting fixed racial categories for a broader human identity · Essentials (1931)

About Jean Toomer

26 December 1894–30 March 1967

On December 26, 1894, in Washington, D.C., Nathan Pinchback Toomer was born into a world of racial complexity that would profoundly shape his literary vision and personal identity. Known to history as Jean Toomer, this enigmatic figure would produce one of the most celebrated works of the Harlem Renaissance before…

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