Decoding Diaspora: Mapping J. A. Rogers' Mythic Africa

References

The works below are a selection of materials with which our project team has been thinking. We working to keep an updated bibliography on Zotero to which project participants can contribute resources of interest.

Asulkile, Thabiti. 2006. "J. A. Rogers: The Scholarship of an Organic Intellectual." The Black Scholar 36.2/3, 35-50.

Asulkile, Thabiti. "Joel Augustus Rogers: Black International Journalism, Archival Research, and Black Print Culture." The Journal of African American History 95.3/4, 322-347. 

Douglass, Frederick. 1881. "The Color Line." The North American Review, June 1881, Vol. 132, No. 295. 567-577.

Du Bois, W. E. 1904. The Souls of Black Folks. A. C. McClurg, Chicago.

Gates, Henry Louis. 2017. 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro. Pantheon Books, New York. 

Gilroy, Paul. 2003 [1992]. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Verso, New York.

Gomez, Michael A. Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora, Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Haley, Alex. 2014 [1974]. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Da Capo Press, New York.

Lincoln, Bruce. 1999. Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship. University of Chicago: Chicago. 

Long, Charles. H. 1999 [1986]. Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion. Davies Press, Aurora, CO.

Newton, Jr. Richard W. 2020. Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures. Equinox: Sheffield, UK.

Ripley: Believe It or Not. PBS.

Rogers, Joel Augustus. 1917. From Superman to Man. M. A. Donohue & Co. 

Whaite, Claire. 2020. "'Un-sung Heroes of Afro-American Historiography': The Case of Joel Augustus Rogers." Idées d'Amériques 16.
 

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