- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Touchstone; Touchstone ed edition (Jan 23 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684815818
- ISBN-13: 978-0684815817
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #359,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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William Loren Katz Author of Eyewitness J.A. Rogers's anthropological and historical research and careful documentation sought to rescue his people from the humiliations of white scholarly mythology. Rogers's classic World's Great Men of Color has added vital pages to what has become known as Black Studies.
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An eye-opening account of the great black personalities of world history.
In this first volume: outstanding blacks of Asia and Africa, and historical figures before Christ -- including Akhenaton, Aesop, Hannibal, Cleopatra, Zenobia, Askia the Great, the Mahdi, Samuel Adjai Crowther, and many more.
World's Great Men of Color is a comprehensive account of the great Black personalities in world history. J. A. Rogers was one of the first Black scholars to devote most of his life to researching the lives of hundreds of men and women of color. This first volume is a convenient reference; equipped with a comprehensive introduction, it treats all aspects of recorded Black history. J. A. Rogers's book is vital reading for everyone who wants a fuller and broader understanding of the great personalities who have shaped our world.
The companion volume covers the great Blacks of Europe, South and Central America, the West Indies, and the United States, including Marcus Garvey, Robert Browning, Dom Pedro, Alexandre Dumas, Joachim Murat, Aleksander Sergeevich Pushkin, Alessandro de' Medici, St. Benedict the Moor, and many others.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Appalling Revisionist History,
This review is from: World's Great Men of Color, Volume I (Paperback)
Cheers to any book celebrating the great black men and women of history, but Mr. Rogers either didn't do his homework or knowingly rewrote history. Claiming that Cleopatra, Hannibal, Ankhenaton and Hatshepsut were black is patently absurd. Cleopatra belonged to Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty of Macedonians, and the great Carthaginian Hannibal was Phoenician, a Semitic people from the eastern Mediterranean. Ankhenation and Hatshepsut were Egyptian Africans, not from sub-Saharan (black) African stock. Egypt's only black pharaohs comprised the 25th Dynasty (747-656 B.C.E.) when Nubians from Kush seized the throne. Shame on Mr. Rogers for this appalling piece of revisionist history.
5.0 out of 5 stars
J.A. Roger's Best Book: A classic,
By rodog63jr (bronx, N.Y.C. N.Y. USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: World's Great Men of Color, Volume I (Paperback)
Although this is old, it provides good insights about famous men of African Heritage
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ahead of his time,
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This review is from: World's Great Men of Color, Volume I (Paperback)
JA Rodgers was ahead of his time when it came to historical reserch. He exposed alot of things that even in our xenophobic world we are afriad to talk about. He discovered through his reserch many of the great people of the past was infact blacks,and that they had been covered up by white wash over centuries. People should read these books with an open mind,because it explains alot in our soceity that are very race conscious people. I learned about Al Jahiz though him and he taught me about many great people I had never even heard of. I never knew about lokman the southern Arabian sage that was considered one of the wisest men. I never knew about the black vikings in this book called blaumen. The book also discussed how many people of the royal family have indeed black ancestry and how they have tried to hide these facts. Get this book to expose the truth and check out other JA Rodgers books.
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