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 88
... women who visited the colored clubs were all white . When I inquired as to the absence of colored women , I was told that the white men had appropriated them . The keeper of one of these places told me that several porters had lost ...
... women who visited the colored clubs were all white . When I inquired as to the absence of colored women , I was told that the white men had appropriated them . The keeper of one of these places told me that several porters had lost ...
Page 110
... white woman is as safe or safer than among her own people . In Cuba , Porto Rico , and in all the South and Central ... women : defective mentality ; the pictures of nude white women in poses , more or less suggestive , that may be ...
... white woman is as safe or safer than among her own people . In Cuba , Porto Rico , and in all the South and Central ... women : defective mentality ; the pictures of nude white women in poses , more or less suggestive , that may be ...
Page 111
... white women have no fear and they pass freely in and out among the Native population , safe and unharmed , never dreaming of danger . It is when natives and low - class white men come in contact with each other that the peril originates ...
... white women have no fear and they pass freely in and out among the Native population , safe and unharmed , never dreaming of danger . It is when natives and low - class white men come in contact with each other that the peril originates ...
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