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 variety of mankind have been slaves that could be bought or sold. Britons were slaves to the Romans. Cicero ... women were slaves in New England, being sold like black slaves and treated not a whit better. Many of the most socially ...
... white variety of mankind have been slaves that could be bought or sold. Britons were slaves to the Romans. Cicero ... women were slaves in New England, being sold like black slaves and treated not a whit better. Many of the most socially ...
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... white women of these types as to their respective merits. Blondes, having the lesser amount of pigment, are supposed to be the more virtuous, which, perhaps accounts for the large number of chemical blondes among women of your race ...
... white women of these types as to their respective merits. Blondes, having the lesser amount of pigment, are supposed to be the more virtuous, which, perhaps accounts for the large number of chemical blondes among women of your race ...
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... white man! Does he not look like a white ape?' “Winwood Reade said that the Negroes on the Western Coast admired a ... women in Central Africa, on seeing a white man for the first time, nearly broke down a doorway in their frantic haste ...
... white man! Does he not look like a white ape?' “Winwood Reade said that the Negroes on the Western Coast admired a ... women in Central Africa, on seeing a white man for the first time, nearly broke down a doorway in their frantic haste ...
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