From Superman to ManThe author attacks the notion of racial superiority through a novel that revolves around a debate between a Pullman porter and a white racist politician. |
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... cannibalism , in some parts of the island . Nor is culture a guarantee from decay , or Greece would not have decayed . You may be sure the Roman had the same contempt for the savages of the North who finally conquered him and almost ...
... cannibalism , in some parts of the island . Nor is culture a guarantee from decay , or Greece would not have decayed . You may be sure the Roman had the same contempt for the savages of the North who finally conquered him and almost ...
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... cannibals yet if we had not dragged them away . The Caucasian has never been guilty of cannibalism , not so far as we can trace our history , thank God . " Dixon seemed unimpressed . He said , quietly , " It is true that cannibalism ...
... cannibals yet if we had not dragged them away . The Caucasian has never been guilty of cannibalism , not so far as we can trace our history , thank God . " Dixon seemed unimpressed . He said , quietly , " It is true that cannibalism ...
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... cannibal who has just enjoyed a piece of human flesh is quite as capable of doing this as the most sensitive of our civilized folk . Cannibalism itself does not there present to these people the repulsive aspects that affect us , and to ...
... cannibal who has just enjoyed a piece of human flesh is quite as capable of doing this as the most sensitive of our civilized folk . Cannibalism itself does not there present to these people the repulsive aspects that affect us , and to ...
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