Table of Contents:
  • Notes on the Selections and the Text
  • Excerpt: From Superman to Man, 1917
  • From As Nature Leads, 1919
  • "The Thrilling Story of the Maroons," Negro World, March 18, 1922
  • "The West Indies," Messenger, September 1922
  • From Blood-Money, New York Amsterdam News, April 1923
  • From "The Ku Klux Spirit: A Brief Outline of the
  • History of the Ku Klux Klan Past and Present," 1923
  • "Jazz at Home," Survey Graphic, March 1925; also The New Negro, 1925
  • "J. A. Rogers Makes Comparison of French and American Customs," New York Amsterdam News, October 14, 1925
  • "J. A. Rogers Gets 'First Hand' Impression of 'Blue Blood' Boosters," Pittsburgh Courier, March 6, (Interview with Two White Supremacists)
  • "What Are We, Negroes or Americans" Messenger, August 1926
  • "Is Black Ever White?" Messenger, September 1926
  • "Talks with Garvey in Prison," New York Amsterdam News, November 17, 1926
  • ["Is There Such a Thing as Negro Art?"] Opportunity, December 1926
  • Review of Paul Whiteman's book Jazz
  • "J. A. Rogers Discusses West Indian Women," Pittsburgh Courier, February 26, 1927
  • "Who Is the New Negro, and Why?" Messenger, March 1927
  • "Is the Star of the Folies-Bergere Really Married?" Pittsburgh Courier, July 16, 1927
  • Interview with Josephine Baker
  • "The Negro's Experience of Christianity and Islam," Review of Nations, January-March 1928
  • "Communism and the Negro," New York Amsterdam News, January 30, 1929
  • "Ahead of Its Time," New York Amsterdam News, April 10, 1929
  • Interview with Claude McKay
  • "Paris Pepper-Pot," Pittsburgh Courier, June 15, 1929
  • "The American Negro in Europe," American Mercury, May 1930
  • "Ruminations: Take a Poke at 'The Emperor Jones,'" New York Amsterdam News, September 27, 1933
  • From 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, 1934
  • "Italy Over Abyssinia," Crisis 42.2, February 1935
  • "J. A. Rogers Gets Exclusive Interview with Emperor" Pittsburgh Courier March 7, 1936
  • Interview with Emperor Haile Selassie
  • "Rogers Describes His 'Adventures in Jim-Crow Land,'" Pittsburgh Courier, August 8, 1936
  • "J. A. Rogers Rips 'Veil of Hypocrisy' from 'Best-Seller,'" Pittsburgh Courier, February 27, 1937
  • Review of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
  • "The Suppression of Negro History," Crisis, May 1940
  • From Your History, 1940
  • From Sex and Race, 1941-44
  • "Rogers Says: Exception Is Taken to Criticism of 'Black Boy,' Written by Theophilus Lewis," Pittsburgh Courier, July 14, 1945
  • From World's Great Men of Color, 1946-47
  • From Nature Knows No Color-Line, 1952
  • From Africa's Gift to America, 1961
  • From She Walks in Beauty, 1963
  • "Civil War Centennial: Myth and Reality," Freedomways Winter, 1963