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 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 51
... white race , the ethnological pride of Europe , is only the direct fruit of a Negro race , the Eurafricans established in Europe from time immemorial and who came from North Africa . In " But what of the skull of the Negro , " objected ...
... white race , the ethnological pride of Europe , is only the direct fruit of a Negro race , the Eurafricans established in Europe from time immemorial and who came from North Africa . In " But what of the skull of the Negro , " objected ...
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... white people and not have social equal- ity ! It is impossible for the races to have identical rights with- out social equality . ” " Haven't white men equal rights , and yet not social equality ... white race . FROM " SUPERMAN " TO MAN 73.
... white people and not have social equal- ity ! It is impossible for the races to have identical rights with- out social equality . ” " Haven't white men equal rights , and yet not social equality ... white race . FROM " SUPERMAN " TO MAN 73.
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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