Sex and Race, Volume 1: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands ― The Old World

Another book by J. A. Rodgers that I’d read in my early 20’s. It’s amazing how much research he was able to do while working as a porter on a Pullman back around the turn of the last century. J. A. Rodgers is to be admired for his accomplishments that will open your mind to to consider alternatives to previous beliefs about race.

I bought this as a gift. I have all four J.A. Rogers books and have had them for years. They are like treasures to me. I recently got rid of about two hundred books but I kept my J.A. Rogers. J.A. Rogers says their is more to history than we are aware and many unwritten events and chapters yet to be explored especially in race relations.

Awesome... I would like a discount on future items.

I did not like this book at all. I honestly did not get past the first few pages. It was some terms and phrases that I definitely did not agree with that steered me away from the book as well.

A lot of information perfect for studying and new information as well!!

Old book with plenty of knowledge for us in the modern day.

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excellent book.

J.A Rogers is an amazing read I have been able to find loads of his references footnotes etc.

A true account of race mixing since Africans and Europeans invaded one another's country. Another good book to be in every library, here in America's and the world to read. J.A. Rogers did a great job.

Another book by J. A. Rodgers that I’d read in my early 20’s. It’s amazing how much research he was able to do while working as a porter on a Pullman back around the turn of the last century. J. A. Rodgers is to be admired for his accomplishments that will open your mind to to consider alternatives to previous beliefs about race.

I bought this as a gift. I have all four J.A. Rogers books and have had them for years. They are like treasures to me. I recently got rid of about two hundred books but I kept my J.A. Rogers. J.A. Rogers says their is more to history than we are aware and many unwritten events and chapters yet to be explored especially in race relations.

Awesome... I would like a discount on future items.

I did not like this book at all. I honestly did not get past the first few pages. It was some terms and phrases that I definitely did not agree with that steered me away from the book as well.

A lot of information perfect for studying and new information as well!!

Old book with plenty of knowledge for us in the modern day.

AS POSTED, GOOD PRICE, FAST SHIPPING, GOOD WRAPPING: RECOMMENDED.

excellent book.

J.A Rogers is an amazing read I have been able to find loads of his references footnotes etc.

A true account of race mixing since Africans and Europeans invaded one another's country. Another good book to be in every library, here in America's and the world to read. J.A. Rogers did a great job.

Lot of information and well written you must respect Mr. Roger's research.

Very informative I sincerely enjoyed this book

I have been reading this book for approximately 5 days and I have already contemplated ordering the other 2 from the series.

top notch information recommend to the all.

Bought book for husband and he reads it all of the time. He enjoys all of J. A. Rogers books they are very informative.

Awesome collection

Very knowledgeable

Concise, detailed tome.

A must read!

great book by a great man

Excellent research, a must read.....

This book should be required reading, at

Very well researched and enlightening. I found this tome a fascinating read. Looking forward to volumes 2 and 3. Highly recommended.

Positive experience

The Book is informative and historical.

You CAN NOT go wrong reading anything by Mr Rogers .

very awesome read.

Must read for all interested in erasing racism.no Society needs truth and not the same euro lies. THIS INFORMATION AND MORE HAS BEEN THERE FOR 8 DECADES. WHO IS HIDING THE TRUTH? I first read these works in 1958, no more excuses. Should be in schools.

perfect!

I am enjoying this book immensely. Though I have finished reading this book I still refer back to it to further research the information that it gives. I love it!

Great book

Good knowledge

Joel Augustus Rogers (1880-1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian. He wrote in the Foreword to this 1940 book, “This book is dedicated to a better understanding among all the varieties of the human race. The merest common sense calls for such an understanding. Racial doctrines as they exist today negate intelligence. Indeed they furnish a paradox… For instance, we had the great dictators, Hitler and Mussolini, openly saying that ‘race’ is a fraud but cynically using it to unite their gullible followers. At the same time the two great democratic nations, Britain and America… were using ‘race’ as a fetish to keep their citizens and subjects divided. White people were set against black peoples by the bogey of miscegenation. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to see what and what have gone into the make-up of this fearsome creature. We shall see that mankind began as a single family; that the family circle widened … until it broke into segments; and with that came the illusion that the segments were no longer parts of the circle. But thanks to … the spread of knowledge the segments are coming together again… and a single understanding family is once more being formed… Racial understanding, racial sympathy, is the key to permanent WORLD PEACE.” In the first chapter, he explains, “We shall show in these pages that sex relations between so-called whites and blacks go back to prehistoric times and on all the continents. Furthermore, since it is held by many that it is only the mixing of the black man and the white woman that can affect the ‘purity of the race’ that it is precisely this kind that happened most in Europe.” (Pg. 2) He observes, “In all the tens of thousands of years prior to the coming of the English to the New World the mixing of black and white was considered, on the whole, perfectly natural, and is still so regarded in nearly all of the civilizations of the Old World. But tobacco and cotton, and the desire of one part of the human species, or rather, certain members of it, to enrich itself at the expense of another part, changed the picture.” (Pg. 16) He suggests, “The supreme concocter of human misery---the mass murderer, liar, and thief of this century is the racial purist. Anyone, even the lowest moron, can always believe and declare himself to be better than anybody else… But this monstrous fad will pass. An important fact to remember: The present generation of Americans is not responsible for what was done in those days. They will be, however, if they help in perpetuating them.” (Pg. 20) He summarizes, “A certain portion of the original human race, which had been changed to white by climatic conditions and a change of diet met again after untold centuries another portion of the original stock which had migrated south and made still blacker, and the two mated and produced the different ‘races’ of mankind.” (Pg. 36) He notes, “The nearest to what was a ‘pure’ white infusion in the Egyptian population came in with the conquest of Alexander the Great in 335 B.C. and the later rule of Ptolemy, one of his generals. Ptolemy was a Greek, and presumably white. In any case the Greeks of that era, though highly mixed, seemed to have been much nearer white than black.” (Pg. 56-57) He recounts, “Thousands of years before the Christian era when these Negroes … were still the masters of India, the … Aryans, a white or nearly white people, swarmed down on them from the north… Out of this fierce struggle came what was the first color-line in history. The conquering whites in India did precisely what the European whites did to the black and yellow men in Asia in our era. Indian caste was founded on color. The Sanskrit word for caste is ‘varna’ which means color.” (Pg. 62-63) He states, “The religion of ancient Greece, like that of Egypt, was established by the Negro. Not only were the Grecian gods black… but the two most important oracles of Greece were established by Negroes, namely those of Dodona and Delphos.” (Pg. 80) Later, he adds, “Two of the most illustrious writers of Greece are mentioned as Negroes: [A]Esop and Sappho. Socrates, too, might have been of Negro origin. He has the small, flat note and bullet head of the Bushman. His features are certainly not Grecian.” (Pg. 84) He argues, “do good Christians ever stop to think about what [Jesus] really looked like? Josephus, first century historian, described him as dark skinned and simple in appearance, in the Halosis, suppressed portion of his work. Solomon, too, is portrayed as a white man, though in the [Song of] Songs] he speaks of himself as ‘black but comely.’” (Pg. 91) He continues, “Moses himself was black. In all likelihood he was the son of Pharaoh’s own daughter, which would account for his adoption and rearing for the throne.” (Pg. 92) He suggests, “Mohamet [Muhammed], himself, was to all account a Negro. A contemporary of his describes him as ‘large-mouthed’ and ‘bluish-colored, with hair that was neither straight nor curly,’ that is, hair that was probably frizzy … ‘Bluish,’ also, happens to be the precise color of certain very Negroid natives of the Sudan.” (Pg. 95-96) He summarizes, “The color pattern of the Egyptian population today may be summed up as follows: In Alexandria and the Delta rather more white than black due to European immigration; at Cairo, there is also a large European population but the native population of mulatto, and shades off towards dark mulatto… in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, it is far more black than mulatto with only a sprinkling of whites, mostly Europeans. Some of these blacks haven’t the broad features of the average West African black, but their hair is woolly. Some of the jet-black, woolly-haired Negroes… have Grecian profiles… In short, this black population is very highly mixed.” (Pg. 110) He observes, “Were the first Britons, Negroes? There is considerable evidence that they might have been. Grimaldi relics have been dug up in England. Very ancient huts, strikingly like those of Africa and the South Seas have been unearthed at Glastonbury. Ring money of the king used by the Negroes of the Sudan to pay tribute to the Pharaohs… has also been found.” (Pg. 196) He notes, “Finally, it may be said that the English are, on the whole, not unkind to Negroes. And they respect intelligence, ability, and integrity when it appears under a black skin very much more than Americans. But for the competition for jobs, which is severe… I am convinced that Englishmen in England would be much kindlier to Negroes.” (Pg. 219) He states, “The earliest gods and messiahs on all the continents were black. Research has yielded an impressive amount of material on the subject. It will be seen, too, that the messiahs, some of whom lived many centuries before Christ, had lives which so closely parallel that of Christ that it seems most likely that the story of the latter was adapted from them. Moreover, the word, Christ, comes from the Indian, Krishna … which means ‘The Black One.’” (Pg. 265) This series will be of great interest to those studying African-American and Africana issues.

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I discovered J.A. Rogers books on race about eight years ago and from time to time I still refer back to them. J.A. Rogers is considered by many to be a Psudo-historian and anytime one references his name, they are regarded as afrocentric and hence not taken seriously by the mainstream white intellectual community. Sex and Race volume I came out originally in the 1950s. A period of time when many of the so-called white intellectuals were convinced of the inferiority of blacks. Indeed, many intellectuals today are convinced of the inferiority blacks in america. Otherwise people would not constantly quote negative statistics about blacks and exaggerate. In this book, Rogers not only talks of black achievement in the old world but also shows that there is no scientific basis for race because a large percentage of the world's population is "mixed" with black or people who are apparently of african ancestry. One of the interesting techniques used by Rogers in these sex and race books is showing photographs of people who have ascertainable "black blood" (no matter how slight) and leaving it up to the reader to judge. Indeed, to show how mixed we are, all one has to do is watch things like the Olympics, read National Geographic magazine and the news. J.A Rogers points out that when people (particularly non-blacks) are confronted with the possibility of being of black african ancestry, they become irritated. Indeed, in some circumstances claiming that someone is of black african ancestry can get you into a lot of trouble. On the other hand, people are proud of being "part German", "part Dutch", "part Italian", etc. Read this book to discover that Germans, Dutch, Italians and other Europeans have been mixing with blacks well before they set foot in america. Some may ask, what difference does it make who has black blood and why does it matter? On the other hand, boasting of being Italian, German, English, etc. holds no shock value. In order to move beyond racism and bigotry, we need to ask ourselves why does it matter if we are part German or other European and why doesn't this carry any kind of stigma like being part black? The problem of race prejudice in the world may never go away, but de-emphsizing the significance of being of European ancestry is a start. The next time you accuse someone of being afrocentric or boasting of the achievements of blacks, ask yourself why aren't you bothered by people constantly boasting of their European ancestry and achievements?