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J.A. Rogers' Rambling Ruminations
A collection of historical writings from the world renown author, historian and "race-man" J. A. Rogers.
Joel Augustus Rogers
This book tells the story of Joel Augustus Rogers from the perspective of a young reader. It encourages all to use their talents for the betterment of the world.
J. A. Rogers
"No man living has revealed so many important facts about the Negro race as has Rogers," wrote W. E. B. DuBois. Indeed, as Henry Louis Gates Jr. contends, J. A. Rogers was often the only source for an ordinary Black person to learn of their history from the 1920s through the 1970s. Now Louis J. Parascandola makes available an accessible collection of Rogers's writings for a new generation. Joel Augustus Rogers was born in Negril, Jamaica, in the late nineteenth century, where--although his father was a teacher--he received only basic education. Rogers emigrated to the United States and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago while working as a Pullman porter. He later took up journalism and ...
Rogers, Joel Augustus
Folder contains an article about the history of Joel Augustus (J.A.) Rogers. Rogers was a journalist, author and a historian of black history
From Superman to Man
"From Superman to Man", self-published in 1917 by J. A. Rogers, was the author's first book and a powerful attack on racism and the ignorance that fuels it. Born Joel Augustus Rogers in Jamaica around 1880, Rogers emigrated to the United States in 1906 and eventually settled in Harlem, New York during the exciting artistic and cultural time of the Harlem Renaissance. In "From Superman to Man", a black Pullman porter and a white racist Southern politician on his way to California debate racial stereotypes and the arguments used to bolster claims of white superiority. Rogers based the novel on his own experiences working as a Pullman porter and his exhaustive research into biology, anthropolog...
Africa's Gift to America
A classic work of black study that shines a light on the accomplishments of African people within Western history—from the groundbreaking journalist. Originally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. Historian Joel Augustus Rogers devoted a significant amount of his professional life to unearthing facts about people of African ancestry. He intended these findings to be a refutation of contemporary racist beliefs about the inferiority of blacks. Rogers asserted that the color of skin did not determine intellectual genius, and he publicized the great black civilizations that had flourished in Africa during antiquity. According to Rogers, many ancient African civilizations had been primal molders of Western civilization and culture.
