Tyrone R Simpson

Biographic Data

ID	2241405
NAME	Tyrone R Simpson
GIVEN NAMES	Tyrone R
FAMILY NAME	Simpson
SIGNATURE	SIMPSON T R
AFFILIATIONS	Vassar College
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	4
TOTAL CITATIONS	2
WORKS AS AUTHOR	4
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2023
H-INDEX	1

Brother Outsider
Tyrone R SimpsonARTICLEBiography2023
Using cultural theory, particularly theories of affect, this essay analyzes Ta-Nehisi Coates's memoir A Beautiful Struggle (2009) to highlight awkwardness as a trope that recent Black autobiographers deploy to underscore their racial interstitiality and to negotiate their fluctuating identification with blackness-a racial condition that by dint of Civil Rights reform entails both social privileges and persecutions. I show that the use of this tro…
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Tyrone R Simpson, Tyrone SimpsonARTICLECallaloo2017Cited by: 1
Reviewed by: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Tyrone Simpson (bio) Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 2016. The diversity of African America has always made diagnosing its mood a tenuous prospect. But if one were to venture at such a claim, it would be fair to say that its recent cultural expression is especially circumspect at this time. The euphoria it experienced at the arrival of an Obama presidency …
Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Open AccessTyrone R Simpson, Tyrone R Simpson IiBOOKGhetto Images in Twentieth-Century…2012
This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical rac
The Love of Colour in Me
Tyrone R Simpson, Tyrone R Simpson Ii Tyrone R Simpson et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2009Cited by: 1
Journal Article "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and the Space of White Racial Manufacture Get access Tyrone R. Simpson, II Tyrone R. Simpson, II Vassar College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 93–114, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0043 Published: 01 September 2009

The Love of Colour in Me
Tyrone R Simpson, Tyrone R Simpson Ii Tyrone R Simpson et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2009Cited by: 1
Journal Article "The Love of Colour in Me": Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and the Space of White Racial Manufacture Get access Tyrone R. Simpson, II Tyrone R. Simpson, II Vassar College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 93–114, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0043 Published: 01 September 2009
Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Open AccessTyrone R Simpson, Tyrone R Simpson IiBOOKGhetto Images in Twentieth-Century…2012
This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical rac
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Tyrone R Simpson, Tyrone SimpsonARTICLECallaloo2017Cited by: 1
Reviewed by: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Tyrone Simpson (bio) Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 2016. The diversity of African America has always made diagnosing its mood a tenuous prospect. But if one were to venture at such a claim, it would be fair to say that its recent cultural expression is especially circumspect at this time. The euphoria it experienced at the arrival of an Obama presidency …
Brother Outsider
Tyrone R SimpsonARTICLEBiography2023
Using cultural theory, particularly theories of affect, this essay analyzes Ta-Nehisi Coates's memoir A Beautiful Struggle (2009) to highlight awkwardness as a trope that recent Black autobiographers deploy to underscore their racial interstitiality and to negotiate their fluctuating identification with blackness-a racial condition that by dint of Civil Rights reform entails both social privileges and persecutions. I show that the use of this tro…