![]() Most contemporary college students have never heard of J.A Rogers nor are they aware of his long journalistic career and pioneering archival research. Even those historians and anthropologists who are aware of Rogers' self-published and popular scholarly works tend only to remember him for the biographical portraits of African and African American leaders and his investigations of the history of sex and race in antiquity and in the modern era. Rogers committed his life to fighting against racism and he had a major influence on black print culture through his attempts to improve race relations in the United States and challenge white supremacist tracts aimed at disparaging the history and contributions of people of African descent to world civilizations."-Thabiti Asukile, "Black International Journalism, Archival Research and Black Print Culture", The Journal of African American History, "The published works of Joel Augustus Rogers are known currently to only a handful of scholars. ![]() Even those historians and anthropologists who are aware of Rogers' self-published and popular scholarly works tend only to remember him for the biographical portraits of African and African American leaders and his investigations of the history of "sex and race" in antiquity and in the modern era. ![]() ![]() "The published works of Joel Augustus Rogers are known currently to only a handful of scholars. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
January 2023
Categories |