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 86
... people in the New World is not only absurd , but pathetic . Look at the very large number of presumably white persons with distinctly Negroid features ! A little more pigment in their skins would make a radical change in their lives ...
... people in the New World is not only absurd , but pathetic . Look at the very large number of presumably white persons with distinctly Negroid features ! A little more pigment in their skins would make a radical change in their lives ...
Page 125
... people and noted how the white audience , persons of apparently the best class , were wrought to the highest pitch of enthusiasm over it , a supreme hatred for all white persons came to him , and that he was praying to God that one of ...
... people and noted how the white audience , persons of apparently the best class , were wrought to the highest pitch of enthusiasm over it , a supreme hatred for all white persons came to him , and that he was praying to God that one of ...
Page 126
... persons who have befriended the Negro . " " I have been thinking of them . I have always maintained that there are two kinds of citizens exactly alike : those whites who say all Negroes are bad and those Negroes who say all white persons ...
... persons who have befriended the Negro . " " I have been thinking of them . I have always maintained that there are two kinds of citizens exactly alike : those whites who say all Negroes are bad and those Negroes who say all white persons ...
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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