In this Book
- Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
summary
Originally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. Historian Joel Augustus Rogers devoted a significant amount of his professional life to unearthing facts about people of African ancestry. He intended these findings to be a refutation of contemporary racist beliefs about the inferiority of blacks. Rogers asserted that the color of skin did not determine intellectual genius, and he publicized the great black civilizations that had flourished in Africa during antiquity. According to Rogers, many ancient African civilizations had been primal molders of Western civilization and culture.
Table of Contents
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- Why This Book Was Written
- pp. 4-6
- I. The African Background
- pp. 7-94
- III. The Negro in the Saving of America
- pp. 127-207
- VI. Additional Pictures
- pp. 262-274
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819575500
Related ISBN(s)
9780819575166, 9780960229468
MARC Record
OCLC
933515874
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No