Cane | Themes
In a letter to his friend and mentor Waldo Frank, Toomer wrote about the African- American people, "There is one thing about the Negro in America which most thoughtful persons seem to ignore: the Negro is in solution, in the process of solution." When using the term solution, Toomer did not mean that the African Americans of the early twentieth century were solving their problems. Rather he meant that they were in the process of being homogeneously mixed into the larger, predominantly white American culture. In other words, the African roots of the African American are dying out....
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