1. Cedric Dover, “Notes on Coloured Writing,” Phylon 8, no. 3 (3rd Quarter, 1947): 222.
2. Cedric Dover, American Negro Art (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1960), 7 and 11.
3. On the history of the word “nigger,” see Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002).
4. The range of his ambitions and of his intellectual network make it even more striking that Dover has been largely forgotten. The most comprehensive account of Dover’s life consists of a chapter in Patrick Wright’s Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao’s China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 242–268.
5. There are brief mentions of Dover in Michael Fabre, The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright, Isabel Barzun, trans. (New York: Morrow, 1973);