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Nature Knows No Color-Line
About this book
The classic refutation of scientific racism from the renowned African American journalist and author of
Africa's Gift to America.
In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist who believed that there were no scientifically evident racial divisionsāall humans belong to one "race." He believed that color prejudice generally evolved from issues of domination and power between two physiologically different groups. According to Rogers, color prejudice was then used a rationale for domination, subjugation and warfare. Societies developed myths and prejudices in order to pursue their own interests at the expense of other groups. This book argues that many instances of the contributions of black people had been left out of the history books, and gives many examples.
"Most contemporary college students have never heard of J.A Rogers nor are they aware of his long journalistic career and pioneering archival research. Rogers committed his life to fighting against racism and he had a major influence on black print culture through his attempts to improve race relations in the United States and challenge white supremacist tracts aimed at disparaging the history and contributions of people of African descent to world civilizations." āThabiti Asukile, "Black International Journalism, Archival Research and Black Print Culture," The Journal of African American History
In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist who believed that there were no scientifically evident racial divisionsāall humans belong to one "race." He believed that color prejudice generally evolved from issues of domination and power between two physiologically different groups. According to Rogers, color prejudice was then used a rationale for domination, subjugation and warfare. Societies developed myths and prejudices in order to pursue their own interests at the expense of other groups. This book argues that many instances of the contributions of black people had been left out of the history books, and gives many examples.
"Most contemporary college students have never heard of J.A Rogers nor are they aware of his long journalistic career and pioneering archival research. Rogers committed his life to fighting against racism and he had a major influence on black print culture through his attempts to improve race relations in the United States and challenge white supremacist tracts aimed at disparaging the history and contributions of people of African descent to world civilizations." āThabiti Asukile, "Black International Journalism, Archival Research and Black Print Culture," The Journal of African American History
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INDEXāAUTHORS
Abd Allah, Ibn, 57
Abdul Baha, 5
Abrantes, Duchess, 66, 123, 149
Acton, R., 163
Aeschines, 48
Aeschylus, 41, 48
Aesclepiades, 34
Alatir, Ibn, 58
Aleman, M., 73
Anderson, D., 177
Anderson, W., 80
Angelo, H., 177
Athair, Ibn, El, 69
Ammianus, 48
Aristotle, 17, 38
Ariz, Pacha, 140
Armandi, D., 44
Arnobius, 49
Arnold, Sir T., 59, 61, 82
Asbury, H., 200, 230, 233
Ashton, J., 174
Astley, T., 218
Atgier, E., 53
Augustine, St., 10, 11, 12
Avezacā D, 72
Babelon, E., 45, 49, 50
Bailey, Nath., 10
Balzac, H., 172
Bancroft, H. H., 214
Barbot, J., 123
Bardsley, C. W., 80
Barry P., 155
Basile, G., 93
Baring-Gould, S., 30
Barrow, R. H., 43
Beardsley, G., 34
Beaumier, A., 58
Beddoe, J., 71
Belcher, E., 216
Bell, R. H., 28
Benedictus, 121
Berejkov, 108
Berkeley-Hill, O., 46, 117
Berry, W., 72, 81, 87
Bertrand, L., 30
Bigelow, J., 130
Binet-Sangle, C., 45
Bloch, A. 41
Bloch, I., 145, 149
Blumenbach, J., 206
Boccalini, T., 110
Boorde, And., 99
Boswell, J., 79
Botsford, J. B., 156
Bourdon, E., 149
Boyce, W. D., 2
Brantome, P., 92, 121, 149
Briffault, R., 155
Brome, R., 40, 74.
Broom, R., 2
Brown, B. C., 157
Browne Sir T., 73
Brown, WM. W., 216
Bryant, J., 31, 53
Bryce, Lord, 191
Byron, Lord. 31, 68
Buel, J., 216
Buffon, G. 5
Bulleid, A., 16
Bulleid & Gray, 71
Bunyan, John, 170
Burckhardt, J., 110, 117, 122
Burke, J. B., 80
Burton, Rich., 117, 140
Busnot, Abbe, 62, 63
Caedmon, 1
Calixte, R., 149
Calixte de Prov., 70
Carcopino, J., 4...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- I. Where did the Color Problem Originate? And Why
- II. Color Prejudice Among Whites Themselves
- III. Negroes In Ancient EuropeāGreece
- IV. Whites and Blacks in Ancient Rome
- V. Racial Intermixture in Spain and Portugal
- VI. The Negro as āMoor.ā Aristocratic European Families
- VII. Whites and Blacks in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Germany
- VIII. Negro Ancestry in the French
- IX. Negro Ancestry in the Anglo-Saxons
- X. Negro Ancestry in White America
- XI. Recent Mixed Marriages
- AppendixāMiscellany On Race Mixture
- Index