Nature Knows No Color-Line : Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race / by J.A. Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, J. A. (Joel Augustus), 1880-1966, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people.

Miscegenation (Racist theory).

Black race.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

St. Petersburg, Florida : Helga M. Rogers, 1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Foreword

Where did the color problem originate? And why

Color prejudice among whites themselves

Negroes in ancient Europe-Greece

Whites and blacks in ancient Rome

Racial intermixture in Spain and Portugal

The Negro as "Moor." aristocratic European families

Whites and blacks in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Germany

Negro ancestry in the French

Negro ancestry in the Anglo-Saxons

Negro ancestry in white America

Recent mixed marriages

Appendix. Miscellany on race mixture

Appendix. General miscellany.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9780819575517

0819575518

OCLC:

933515711