From Superman to Man

by J.A. Rogers and J a Rodgers

Book Overview

A classic work of fiction from the Harlem Renaissance

Joel Augustus Roger's seminal work, this novel first published in 1917 is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revolves around a debate between a Pullman porter and a white racist Southern politician.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0960229442
• ISBN13: 9780960229444
• Release Date: June 1941
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

Pleasant surprise

While cleaning out a closet full of books at the community center where I serve as its Educational Director, this book falls off of the shelf. It has been the most enlightening book I have ever read! The previous reviewers have spoken ever so eloquently, I will simply say, given the psuedo-intellectual, "we have overcome" times we live in, J.A. Rogers' work should be manditory reading for all. At home and abroad. This book keeps it "real.

The Definitive Book of African American thought

This is historically the best book I've read since, "Sister outsider". In only 129 pages you will find the history of the world. Historians will truly enjoy this witty and humorous text. It reminds one of the teachings of Fanon. What I would like to know, if anyone can answer this question for me. Who is the M. Finot that J.A. Rogers often quotes in the book? Thanks Sincerely.Jm

A must read for all African-American YOUNG men with a brain.

As I approach my last year toward my PhD in nursing, I still have yet to find a better read. There is no reason for this book not to be a must read by parents of all young men who may want to understand a challenge. The conversation between the senator and porter was an excellent one.

Page for page, it may be the best book on race ever written.

Although presumably a work of fiction, "From Man to Superman" succeeds in doing in a slim 127 pages what whole libraries of works of non-fiction have never done - it makes most "white" Americans' ideas about race seem ridiculous. Although written over a half-century ago, it is the most advanced book on race and racism I have ever read - and that includes my recently published book, "WHITE FOLKS": Seeing America Through Black Eyes. That a "black" man living in the Draconian racist climate of 1930s and 40s America could keep his wits about him enough to even think such thoughts is a tribute to the awesome power of the human intellect. That he could garner the Herculian strength and Einsteinian ingenuity to write and publish this most concise criticism of America's racial apartheid system, is almost unbelievable. I cannot praise this book highly enough. It should be required reading for every American, starting with President Clinton.