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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Page 5
... 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 had been reading last . It was where the author spoke of the Germans and ...
... 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 had been reading last . It was where the author spoke of the Germans and ...
Page 62
... smoker he drew a glass of water and took it to the body of the car . When he came back , the senator remarked with some hesitancy : - " The truth about the matter is that the Negro is uncouth . He has nothing of the finer feeling of the ...
... smoker he drew a glass of water and took it to the body of the car . When he came back , the senator remarked with some hesitancy : - " The truth about the matter is that the Negro is uncouth . He has nothing of the finer feeling of the ...
Page 76
... smoker . After greeting the two he leaned against the washstand and with the freedom that exists on the trains began to listen to the conversation . Dixon rose and offered him a chair . " No , no ; this is good enough for me , " he said ...
... smoker . After greeting the two he leaned against the washstand and with the freedom that exists on the trains began to listen to the conversation . Dixon rose and offered him a chair . " No , no ; this is good enough for me , " he said ...
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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