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Carlton, Esq., Librarian, Newberry Library, Chicago (in a letter to the author): 'I shall place your book in the permanent collection of the Library where present day and future students of the history of your race will find it a most significant document.'The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: 'From Superman to Man is a vindication of the American Negro.'Hon. Foster, University of Chicago: 'A stirring story, faithful to truth and helpful to a better understanding and feeling.'New York Evening Post: 'This porter, who had attended Yale, had travelled extensively and spoke several languages, had at his fingers' end the arguments necessary to prove that his race was not a whit inferior to the Caucasian.'W. Roger's brilliant polemic From 'Superman' to Man uncovers how truly weak racist arguments are.Set in a train carriage the plot revolves around the debate between a white racist Southern politician and an African-American Pullman porter.Every stereotypical argument that is put forward by the politician is rebuffed by the porter who uses sophisticated points backed up with solid evidence to counter the frequently offensive comments.Prof, George B. Racism has surfaced time and again through the course of American history.Men and women have attempted to justify their absurd opinions through a variety of arguments, from religion to science, to history and culture.J. The books are presented here in their original editions. Self-trained and self-published, Rogers and his work were immensely popular and influential during his day, even cited by Malcolm X. The series marshals the data he had collected as evidence to prove his underlying humanistic thesis: that people were one large family without racial boundaries. Indeed his belief in one race-humanity-precluded the idea of several different ethnic races. Drawing on a vast amount of research, Rogers was attempting to point out the absurdity of racial divisions. In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the “color problem.” Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic differences are the result of sociological factors and in these volumes he gathered what he called “the bran of history”-the uncollected, unexamined history of black people-in the hope that these neglected parts of history would become part of the mainstream body of Western history.

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