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Notes on the Selections and the Text -- Excerpt: From Superman to Man, 1917 -- From As Nature Leads, 1919 -- "The Thrilling Story of the Maroons," Negro World, March 18, 1922 -- "The West Indies," Messenger, September 1922 -- From Blood-Money, New York Amsterdam News, April 1923 -- From "The Ku Klux Spirit: A Brief Outline of the -- History of the Ku Klux Klan Past and Present," 1923 -- "Jazz at Home," Survey Graphic, March 1925; also The New Negro, 1925 -- "J. A. Rogers Makes Comparison of French and American Customs," New York Amsterdam News, October 14, 1925 -- "J. A. Rogers Gets 'First Hand' Impression of 'Blue Blood' Boosters," Pittsburgh Courier, March 6, (Interview with Two White Supremacists) -- "What Are We, Negroes or Americans" Messenger, August 1926 -- "Is Black Ever White?" Messenger, September 1926 -- "Talks with Garvey in Prison," New York Amsterdam News, November 17, 1926 -- ["Is There Such a Thing as Negro Art?"] Opportunity, December 1926 -- Review of Paul Whiteman's book Jazz -- "J. A. Rogers Discusses West Indian Women," Pittsburgh Courier, February 26, 1927 -- "Who Is the New Negro, and Why?" Messenger, March 1927 -- "Is the Star of the Folies-Bergere Really Married?" Pittsburgh Courier, July 16, 1927 -- Interview with Josephine Baker -- "The Negro's Experience of Christianity and Islam," Review of Nations, January-March 1928 -- "Communism and the Negro," New York Amsterdam News, January 30, 1929 -- "Ahead of Its Time," New York Amsterdam News, April 10, 1929 -- Interview with Claude McKay -- "Paris Pepper-Pot," Pittsburgh Courier, June 15, 1929 -- "The American Negro in Europe," American Mercury, May 1930 -- "Ruminations: Take a Poke at 'The Emperor Jones,'" New York Amsterdam News, September 27, 1933 -- From 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, 1934 -- "Italy Over Abyssinia," Crisis 42.2, February 1935 -- "J. A. Rogers Gets Exclusive Interview with Emperor" Pittsburgh Courier March 7, 1936 -- Interview with Emperor Haile Selassie -- "Rogers Describes His 'Adventures in Jim-Crow Land,'" Pittsburgh Courier, August 8, 1936 -- "J. A. Rogers Rips 'Veil of Hypocrisy' from 'Best-Seller,'" Pittsburgh Courier, February 27, 1937 -- Review of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind -- "The Suppression of Negro History," Crisis, May 1940 -- From Your History, 1940 -- From Sex and Race, 1941-44 -- "Rogers Says: Exception Is Taken to Criticism of 'Black Boy,' Written by Theophilus Lewis," Pittsburgh Courier, July 14, 1945 -- From World's Great Men of Color, 1946-47 -- From Nature Knows No Color-Line, 1952 -- From Africa's Gift to America, 1961 -- From She Walks in Beauty, 1963 -- "Civil War Centennial: Myth and Reality," Freedomways Winter, 1963 |
