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Sex and Race, Volume 2
Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands -- The Old World
Sales Date: 2012-02-01
Classic work of black study provides detailed historico-biographical surveys of black history
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. Drawing on a vast amount of research, Rogers was attempting to point out the absurdity of racial divisions. Indeed his belief in one race—humanity—precluded the idea of several different ethnic races. 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. Self-trained and self-published, Rogers and his work were immensely popular and influential during his day, even cited by Malcolm X. The books are presented here in their original editions.
PART I. LATIN AMERICA
Race and the New World
Venezuela
Brazil
Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile
Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama
Mexico
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Surinam
The Dominican Republic
Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe
The British West Indies
The British West Indies After the Emancipation
Present Racial Composition of Latin American
PART II. ANGO-SAXON AMERICA
The Beginning of Miscegenation in the United States
Mixing of White and Black Nationally
Mixing of Blacks and Whites in the United States
The Break-Down of Anti-Miscegenation Laws
Slaveholders and Their Trade with Houses of Prostitution
Affection Between the "Races" During Slavery
White Negro Slaves
White People Sold as Negro Slaves
Rivalry Between White Wives and Negro Concubines
Famous White Men And Their Negro Mistresses
Marriage of White Men and Negro Women During Slavery
The Negro and the White Woman
Negroes, Slave and Free, As Co-Respondents in White Divorce Cases
Rich Negroes with White Wives During Slavery
Noted White Americans of Negro Ancestry
Miscegenation Since the Civil War: White Union Soldiers and Negro Women
Rape of White Women by Negroes
Race-Mixing as Related by Various Writers
Present Day Case Histories
Ratio of Sex and Race in Mixed Marriages
Religion and Miscegenation
Some Mixed Marriages of Our Times
Mixed Blood Groups Known as Other Than Negroes
Canada
Oddities of Race-Mixing—Comedies and Tragedies
Hannah Elias, The Black Cleopatra
APPENDICES
Notes on Latina America—Where Did Syphilis Originate
Who Wished Miscegenation the More, Negro or Caucasian
The Primitive Negro and His Attitude Toward Mixing with White People
Body Odors and Their Sexual Effect
Notes on the Illustrations
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. His research spanned the academic fields of history, sociology and anthropology. He challenged prevailing ideas about race, demonstrated the connections between civilizations, and traced African achievements. He was one of the greatest popularizers of African history in the twentieth century. 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. A respected historian and gifted lecturer, Rogers was a close personal friend of the Harlem-based intellectual and activist Hubert Harrison. 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.
"The published works of Joel Augustus Rogers are known currently to only a handful of scholars. 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. Most contemporary college students have never heard of J.A Rogers nor are they aware of his long journalistic career and pioneering archival research. 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
"No man living has revealed so many important facts about the Negro as Rogers."
~W.E.B. Dubois
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