Nature Knows No Color-Line

J. A. Rogers

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780960229451
• eBook ISBN: 9780819575517
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Black Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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 divisions—all 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." —Thabiti Asukile, "Black International Journalism, Archival Research and Black Print Culture, " The Journal of African American History

INDEX—AUTHORS

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

Avezac’ 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 Europe—Greece
• IV. Whites and Blacks in Ancient Rome
• V. Racial Intermixture in Spain and Portugal
• VI. The Negro as “Moor.” 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
• Appendix—Miscellany On Race Mixture
• Index