From "Superman" to ManA classic work of fiction from the Harlem Renaissance Joel Augustus Roger's seminal work, this novel first published in 1917 is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revolves around a debate between a Pullman porter and a white racist Southern politician. |
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... porter , his duties finished sought the more comfortable warmth of the smoker , a book - Finot's " Race Prejudice " -under his arm . Settling himself in a corner of the long leather couch , he opened the book in search of the place he ...
... porter , his duties finished sought the more comfortable warmth of the smoker , a book - Finot's " Race Prejudice " -under his arm . Settling himself in a corner of the long leather couch , he opened the book in search of the place he ...
Page 53
... porter as contrasted with his own rude manner , he , a Caucasian and a United States senator . Worst of all , he had to acknowledge even to himself the logic of the porter's arguments backed up as they had been by such an array of the ...
... porter as contrasted with his own rude manner , he , a Caucasian and a United States senator . Worst of all , he had to acknowledge even to himself the logic of the porter's arguments backed up as they had been by such an array of the ...
Page 95
... porters say : ' What's the use ? There's Dixon with a good education and he is doing the same porter work as I. " There I was actually setting a bad example to this man ! Now , really , can you blame them for this Omar Khayyam outlook ...
... porters say : ' What's the use ? There's Dixon with a good education and he is doing the same porter work as I. " There I was actually setting a bad example to this man ! Now , really , can you blame them for this Omar Khayyam outlook ...
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Africa American Anglo-Saxon asked average white beauty believe better black and white blood Booker cannibalism Caucasian centuries Chicago Christianity citizens civilization colored women Communists cultured darker races Dixon continued Dixon found Dixon took Europe European feeling Finot hair Haiti Harry Johnston Havelock Ellis human variety hundred immorality Indian Ira Aldridge Jews jim-crow large number laws less live look lynching marriage marry matter mental miscegenation morality mulatto nation native Negro Negro women never nigger Northern notebook number of whites odor opinion party passenger porter primitive prove question racial rape replied Dixon segregation self-respect sexual skin slavery slaves smoker so-called social equality South South America Southern speak spirit superior syphilis tell thing thought tion train trait truth United Universal Races Congress white American white man's white persons white race white women woman Zulu