Foley, Barbara. 1988. "In the Land of Cotton": Economics and Violence in Jean Toomer's Cane. African American Review 32 (aestas).
Foley, Barbara. 1995. Jean Toomer's Sparta. American Literature 67 (December).
Foley, Barbara. 1996. Jean Toomer's Washington and the Politics of Class: From "Blue Veins" to Seventh-Street Rebels. Modern Fiction Studies 42(aestas 1996): 289–321.
Feith, Michael, et Genevieve Fabre, eds. 2000. Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813528461.
McKay, Nellie Y. 1984. Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Ostrom, Hans. 2006. Jean Toomer. In The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006. Poema. Indianapoli: Dog Ear Publishing, p. 17. Primum prolatum in Xavier Review 23(2) (autumno).