

MISCEGENATION IN HOLLAND, BELGIUM, AUSTRIA, POLAND, RUSSIA MIXING OF WHITE AND BLACK IN AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA BLACK AND WHITE IN SYRIA, PALESTINE, ARABIA, PERSIA THE MIXING OF BLACK AND WHITE IN THE ANCIENT EAST

Sex and Race, Volume I: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands: The Old World Rogers, Joel Augustus Rogers, Wesleyan University PressĬomments Off on Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race Whites and Blacks in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Germany The Negro As “Moor.” Aristocratic European Families Racial Intermixture in Spain and Portugal Where Did the Color Problem Originate? And Why This book argues that many instances of the contributions of black people had been left out of the history books, and gives many examples. Societies developed myths and prejudices in order to pursue their own interests at the expense of other groups. According to Rogers, color prejudice was then used a rationale for domination, subjugation and warfare.

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. In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examined the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race “ What Are We Coming To, and When Shall We Reach It?,” The New York Times, March 26, 1864. Let that tinge once become general, and then “farewell, a long farewell to all our whiteness!” The signs of this great and terrible change already begin to make themselves manifest in our streets for the most careless observer who walks down Broadway, can hardly fail to observe the appearance on a vast number of faces of the well-known brownish tinge. We shall all be mulattoes, and be afflicted with all the peculiarities both mental and physical of that unhappy race. For it is as plain as a pikestaff that if it continues, there will be soon no whites left in this once great and prosperous country. Where is this thing to end? Whither are we tending? What is to be done to stop this most unnatural and detestable movement. The question of course which naturally suggests itself to every right-minded white man and woman, is.
