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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... white Americans were captured on the high seas and taken as slaves by the ... American slaves , who had been freed . " The senator was silent . He had ... white people as slaves in this country as late as 1818. But for the honor of the ...
... white Americans were captured on the high seas and taken as slaves by the ... American slaves , who had been freed . " The senator was silent . He had ... white people as slaves in this country as late as 1818. But for the honor of the ...
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... White God ! Colored God , too , eh ? Whom does the white American really worship , I ask ? The fetish of color , or the Christ whose name he mouths ? What material for a satirist ! Voltaire nearly laughed the Pope off his throne in the ...
... White God ! Colored God , too , eh ? Whom does the white American really worship , I ask ? The fetish of color , or the Christ whose name he mouths ? What material for a satirist ! Voltaire nearly laughed the Pope off his throne in the ...
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... white people are not so much against the Negro as that they don't know . As the French would say they are plus bete que mechant . Color prejudice is only a result of certain ignorant teachings . The white American to whom the feeling ...
... white people are not so much against the Negro as that they don't know . As the French would say they are plus bete que mechant . Color prejudice is only a result of certain ignorant teachings . The white American to whom the feeling ...
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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