Skip to product information
$15.00
In Nature Knows No Color-Line, historian and journalist J. A. Rogers digs through genealogies, portraits, court records, and scattered historical notes to argue that the color line is far blurrier than racist science ever admitted. He traces African ancestry in European royal families, prominent political figures, and “white” populations more broadly, using the tools available to an independent Black researcher in the early twentieth century. The tone is part detective work, part polemic: Rogers is less interested in celebrity gossip than in undermining the idea of fixed, biologically meaningful races.
WHY WE PICKED IT
Because it remains a striking example of Black independent scholarship pushing back against scientific racism with patient, obsessive research. Nature Knows No Color-Line is a strong pick for readers of Black history, genealogy, and anyone interested in how race has been constructed—and contested—over time.
Because it remains a striking example of Black independent scholarship pushing back against scientific racism with patient, obsessive research. Nature Knows No Color-Line is a strong pick for readers of Black history, genealogy, and anyone interested in how race has been constructed—and contested—over time.
DETAILS
• Author: J. A. Rogers
• Publisher: BN Publishing
• Author: J. A. Rogers
• Publisher: BN Publishing
• Format: Paperback & Hardcover
• Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days