SEX AND RACE - VOLUME 1: NEGRO - CAUCASIAN MIXING IN ALL AGES AND ALL LANDS; VOLUME II: A HISTORY OF WHITE, NEGRO, AND INDIAN MISCEGENATION IN THE TWO AMERICAS; VOLUME III: WHY WHITE AND BLACK MIX IN SPITE OF OPPOSITION
Book Details + Condition: Helga M. Rogers (New York). Early Editions, 1967, 1972, 1980. Complete three-volume hardcover set with dust jackets. Pagination: 303pp; 411pp; 332pp; with Appendix, Bibliography and Index. Illustrated throughout. From the publisher: In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the “color problem.” Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic differences are the result of sociological factors and in these volumes he gathered what he called “the bran of history”—the uncollected, unexamined history of black people—in the hope that these neglected parts of history would become part of the mainstream body of Western history. Drawing on a vast amount of research, Rogers was attempting to point out the absurdity of racial divisions. Indeed his belief in one race—humanity—precluded the idea of several different ethnic races. The series marshals the data he had collected as evidence to prove his underlying humanistic that people were one large family without racial boundaries. Self-trained and self-published, Rogers and his work were immensely popular and influential during his day, even cited by Malcolm X.
For all three volumes: firm binding; some minor darkening to spines and edges of boards; toned endpapers; minor wear and aging to original dust jackets; interiors are clean and free of markings, save stamp of the Shrine of the Black Madonna to the title pages.
