McAlexander, Hubert Horton
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Encyclopedia article about Jean Toomer's book entitled Cane. The generative force behind Cane was Georgia. Toomer grew up amid the African American elite in Washington, D.C., and attended the University of Wisconsin, the Massachusetts College of Agriculture, the American College of Physical Training in Chicago, the University of Chicago, and City College of New York. In 1920 he decided to become a writer, filled a trunk with manuscripts, and the next fall, at the age of twenty-six, took a position in Sparta, Georgia, as the substitute head of a small industrial school for blacks. On the train home to Washington just three months later, in November 1921, he began writing the first of the segments that would become part of the Modernist masterpiece published in 1923 as Cane.
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- African Americans
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- Race In Literature
- Social Conditions
- Toomer, Jean, 1894 1967. Cane
- United States
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