From "Superman" to Man: A Fearless and Penetrating Discussion of America's Greatest ProblemThe first book from “a tireless champion of African history,” a novel that “challenged the theories that Blacks were inferior to whites” (New York Amsterdam News). Joel Augustus Roger’s seminal work from the Harlem Renaissance, this novel—first published in 1917—is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revolves around a train speeding to California, serviced by an African American porter named Dixon. On board is a United States senator from Oklahoma, a man obsessed by race who makes no attempts to hide his prejudice. Unable to sleep, the politician encounters Dixon in the smoking car, and thus ensues a debate about religion, science, and racial equality . . . “A bold discussion novel in which a cultured, well-travelled, black Pullman porter is drawn into a debate with a white passenger, a Southern senator, on the question of the superiority of the Anglo Saxon and the inferiority of the Negro.” —The Guardian “A genuine treasure. I still insist that From ‘Superman’ to Man is the greatest book ever written in English on the Negro by a Negro and I am glad to know that increasing thousands of black and white readers re-echo the high opinion of it which I had expressed some years ago.” —Hubert Henry Harrison “A stirring story, faithful to truth and helpful to a better understanding and feeling.” —Prof. George B. Foster, University of Chicago |
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... white people in Colonial America and elsewhere, intermarriage, religion ancient Negro civilization, race attraction and repulsion, lynching and other aspects all scientifically dealt with in an interesting argument between a southern ...
... white people in Colonial America and elsewhere, intermarriage, religion ancient Negro civilization, race attraction and repulsion, lynching and other aspects all scientifically dealt with in an interesting argument between a southern ...
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... white race. Some of these so-called inferior whites have, in turn, built up a similar theory about the darker ... persons had concerning the different varieties of the human race. These discussions, he recalled, had done him good. They ...
... white race. Some of these so-called inferior whites have, in turn, built up a similar theory about the darker ... persons had concerning the different varieties of the human race. These discussions, he recalled, had done him good. They ...
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... white associates as well and that feeling you, yourself, would call in any ... people against the 'nigger' are you Northerners who have come South. You ... people, Dixon had felt no animosity toward the man. Here, he had thought, was a ...
... white associates as well and that feeling you, yourself, would call in any ... people against the 'nigger' are you Northerners who have come South. You ... people, Dixon had felt no animosity toward the man. Here, he had thought, was a ...
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... white people are the Anglo-Saxon, Teutons and Scandinavians.” This, Dixon surmised, accounted for the remark he had made about Finot's adopted nationality, and it amused him. Dixon pondered the question. Then there occurred to him a way ...
... white people are the Anglo-Saxon, Teutons and Scandinavians.” This, Dixon surmised, accounted for the remark he had made about Finot's adopted nationality, and it amused him. Dixon pondered the question. Then there occurred to him a way ...
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... white man? Come on now, none of your theories." Dixon appeared far from ... white iman?” “Your question has answered itself, sir.” "In what way?" “Well, sir, if ... people as chattels?" And he finished austerely: "Come on now, no 22 FROM ...
... white man? Come on now, none of your theories." Dixon appeared far from ... white iman?” “Your question has answered itself, sir.” "In what way?" “Well, sir, if ... people as chattels?" And he finished austerely: "Come on now, no 22 FROM ...
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