Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race |
Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race
Wesleyan University Press
2014 (originally published in 1952)
248 pages
ISBN: 9780960229451
In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examined 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.
Table of 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-Saxon “Race”
- X. Negro Ancestry in White America
- XI. Recent Mixed Marriages
- Appendix—Miscellany on Race Mixture
- Appendix—General Miscellany
- Index