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 19
... white - skinned humanity got its civilization from the black - skinned variety , and even its origin . Volney says : • · " " To the race ... white race is civilized and all the other races , to some extent . Consider the traditions of the ...
... white - skinned humanity got its civilization from the black - skinned variety , and even its origin . Volney says : • · " " To the race ... white race is civilized and all the other races , to some extent . Consider the traditions of the ...
Page 31
... white man ! Does he not look like a white ape ? ' " Winwood Reade said that the Negroes on the Western Coast admired a very black skin more than one of a lighter tint . Agbebi , a West African scientist , says in his paper before the Races ...
... white man ! Does he not look like a white ape ? ' " Winwood Reade said that the Negroes on the Western Coast admired a very black skin more than one of a lighter tint . Agbebi , a West African scientist , says in his paper before the Races ...
Page 111
... white women , particularly in the South , have a great fondness for Negroes , a taste inherited quite legitimately ... race against the white are as nothing when compared to the sexual crimes of the white race against the black . Negroes ...
... white women , particularly in the South , have a great fondness for Negroes , a taste inherited quite legitimately ... race against the white are as nothing when compared to the sexual crimes of the white race against the black . Negroes ...
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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