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Jones's reductive position that "reified thinking" prevented Toomer from recognizing the "reality" of his racial position and social responsibility will no doubt suit many readers, but it ignores the extent to which "amalgamation" was a live issue in Toomer's day (Franz Boas actually advocating it, many NAACP officers expecting it in the long term) and rather too easily dismisses Toomer's critique of the rigidifying racial binarism of American ideology.
And so I remain mesmerized by Barney's Houdinilike escape from the rigidifying determinations of sexual difference.
Authoritarianism, with its pragmatic orientation, reinforces this trait, which however is a rigidifying one.
 
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