Talk:Kathleen Tankersley Young

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Hi everyone. I have started editing this page because I have been researching KTY and looking at various info sources on her life (newspaper articles, government records, & scholarly articles mainly). Jacob (talk) 02:46, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Was KTY African-American? Almost certainly not

In full transparency, I have edited this page to no longer have the description of KTY as an "African-American poet." Princeton' Library & Archives page used to refer to her as such and I think I have seen her described as such in a dissertation and an article, but this seems to have been an erroneous judgment, based mainly on KTY's work appearing in the Harlem magazine 'Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life' and her work's later anthologization in 'Shadowed Dreams' in the late 1980s, an anthology devoted to women's poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. I have added a link to the 1920 census that lists KTY's race as white. I showed this & a few other documents to the Princeton librarians and they updated their description, which no longer states that KTY was African-American. I have read through many of her letters and looked at other documents and sources keeping in mind that she may have been of mixed race, but I have come across nothing that suggests that this is the case. For these reasons I am going to remove the African diaspora Wikiproject stub on this page now.Jacob (talk) 02:45, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]