"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. 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 Most contemporary college students have never heard of J.A Rogers nor are they aware of his long journalistic career and pioneering archival research. Augustus Rogers, author of Worlds Great Men of Color and Sex and Race: Negro. Even those historians and anthropologists who are aware of Rogers' self-published and popular scholarly works tend only to remember him for the biographical portraits of African and African American leaders and his investigations of the history of sex and race in antiquity and in the modern era. Jorgensen (1995) noted that Black American writers such as Du Bois Joel. "The published works of Joel Augustus Rogers are known currently to only a handful of scholars. About Ethiopia, Sex and Race, Nature Knows No Color-Line, and The Worlds Great Men of Color. This book argues that many instances of the contributions of black people had been left out of the history books, and gives many examples. Joel Augustus Rogers was born on this date in 1883.
In the 1920s, Rogers worked as a journalist on the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Enterprise, and he served as the first black foreign correspondent from the United States. In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. A respected historian and gifted lecturer, Rogers was a close personal friend of the Harlem-based intellectual and activist Hubert Harrison. Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race by J. Rogers addresses issues such as the lack of scientific support for the idea of race, the lack of black history being told from a black person's perspective, and the fact of intermarriage and unions among peoples throughout history.
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Rogers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. He was one of the greatest popularizers of African history in the twentieth century. The item Nature knows no color-line : research into the Negro ancestry in the white race, by J.A. He challenged prevailing ideas about race, demonstrated the connections between civilizations, and traced African achievements.
His pamphlet Five Negro Presidents provided what he said was evidence that some 19th- and 20th-century presidents of the United States had partially black ancestry. His research spanned the academic fields of history, sociology and anthropology. Rogers' theories about race, sex and color can be found in his books Nature Knows No Color-Line, World's Great Men of Color. JOEL AUGUSTUS ROGERS (September 6, 1880– March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States.
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