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Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race

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Title: Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race
by J. A. Rogers
ISBN: 0-9602294-5-0
Publisher: Helga M. Rogers
Pub. Date: 01 June, 1980
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $13.95
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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: one of the best books on race mixing ever written
Comment: This book was originally published in 1952 and then renewed in 1980. This book along with the author's three volume series "Sex and Race" are simply the best books ever written on the issue of race mixing.

The book consists of 11 chapters which are:

I. Where did the color problem originate? and why

Rogers investsigates the origin of black/white racism by looking at what has been written about black skin and black people in ancient times.

II. Color prejudice among whites and among darker peoples for their own kind.

Examples of racist beliefs in Greece, Ancient India and Europe. Numerous photos of sculptures are given along with references.

III. Negroes in Ancient Europe - Greece

The title of this chapter speaks for itself. There are numerous illustrations. The one flaw in this chapter that I found is the statement by the author that one finds the least race predudice in Europe. Maybe this was true in the 50s, but it certainly isn't true today. Iceland is perhaps the only European country with very little or no race predudice today. With the advent of immigration however, I wouldn't be surprised to see racism grow in Iceland just as it has grown in Europe since the 50s.

IV. Intermixture of whites and blacks in ancient Rome

As usual, Rogers provides numerous notes with references along with illustrations.

V. Racial intermixture in Spain and Portugal

The history of the moors in spain is discussed. It is a well known fact that the moorish scholars laid down the foundation of scientific thought in Europe.

VI. The negro as "moor" - negro ancestry in aristocratic european families

Coats of arms of eminent black English, French, Dutch, Beligian, Italian, Spanish, Polish, German and central european families is given. Many of the pictures show black people wearing jewels, crowns, and holding swords. Whatever they are wearing or doing, they are obviously people of very high status. There is no doubt that the royal family of England has blacks in their family. On the cover of the book, there is a picture of Queen Charlotte Sophia who obviously is woman of black ancestry.

VII. Mixtures of whites and blacks in Greece, Turkey, Italy and Central Europe

Pictures of the European slave market is given along with pictures of blacks in Russia, Belgium and Holland. There are also pictures German women with their interracial children. Interracial marriages in Norway and Denmark are also mentioned.

VIII. Negro ancestry in the French

IX. Negro ancestry in the Anglo-Saxon "race"

Throughout europe there are indeed many prominent people who are of black ancestry.

X. Negro ancestry in white america

XI. Some recent well-to-do mixed marriages mentioned in the press

A listing of interracial marriages (names and dates) in the US, some of which brought prison terms.

Rating: 5
Summary: The Greatest Historian I've Ever Read
Comment: J. A. Rogers was an excellent historian and the greatest historian I've ever read. He gives information that no other historian has ever published in any book. Not only would the information shock you, the pictures will shock you as well. Example: pages 83-91, 94-107 (pictures of the Black-a-Moors of European noble families). J. A. Rogers goes into uncharted unexplored territory about the issue of race, including genetics, who was the first race, racial superiority and inferiority, and interracial mixing throughout human history. He also gives info not even white historians here in America have talked about. (Example; in his book "Sex and Race Vol. 1", page 87 he has a painting by French painter Jean Paul Laurens of the "Black" Roman Emperor Honorius). Especially, the pictures of the "Black" a.k.a. "Negroid" photographs of the Black Madonnas, Black Christs, Black Messiahs, Black Krishnas, and Black Buddhas. J. A. Rogers even mentions the lost manuscript of Flavious Josephus titled Halosis on page 40 of Rogers' book which Josephus describes Jesus as "...a man of simple appearance mature age, dark skin, with little hair...". These are just a few of the many facts J. A. Rogers gives in his works. Another awesome book he wrote is "100 Amazing Facts About The Negro" and the masterpiece "Sex and Race, Vol 1, II, & III" Even "Nature Knows No Color-Line" is a master work, an examination of world history at it's finest. Rogers is indeed a master historian who deserves more attention and credit.

Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting and Intriuging
Comment: This book is a collection of photos, facts and figures but despite this it makes a fascinating read. Mr. Rogers writes about a taboo subject, the mixing of races, or as part of his title states "Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race." It is a fascinating book if somewhat stodgy and a bit pompous in places. Considering that it was written at a time when mixing white with black was illegal in many American States Mr. Rogers does a fairly good job of informing the reader of how the white-person should not be so complacent about his or her supposedly pure racial heritage. Mr. Rogers argues eloquently that race should not be an issue, and that it is humanity that counts not the colour of a person's skin. This is a good book if you want to read various anecdotes about racial mixing throughout the world both ancient and modern (modern being the 1950s when this book was published) and I would recommend it as a good but somewhat dated book on racial issues in the world.

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