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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... look how he bleaches his skin , straightens his hair , and uses other devices to appear like the white man ! Isn't that a sign of inferiority ? Imitation is acknowledgment of superior- ity . Do you see any other race thus imitating the ...
... look how he bleaches his skin , straightens his hair , and uses other devices to appear like the white man ! Isn't that a sign of inferiority ? Imitation is acknowledgment of superior- ity . Do you see any other race thus imitating the ...
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... Look at the 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 ...
... Look at the 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 ...
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J. A. Rogers. governing himself . Who evolved the white man's government for him ? Look what a miserable failure Liberia has been amid the wealth of the vast African continent ! Look what a farce Haiti is ! There never has been a ...
J. A. Rogers. governing himself . Who evolved the white man's government for him ? Look what a miserable failure Liberia has been amid the wealth of the vast African continent ! Look what a farce Haiti is ! There never has been a ...
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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 feel 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 prejudice primitive prove question racial rape replied Dixon segregation self-respect sexual skin slavery slaves smoker so-called social equality South South America Southern speak 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