From Superman to Human

von John Aaron Wright Jr

266 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Six strangers. One Acela train from New York to Washington. Three hours to find out whether honest conversation about race in America is still possible.Dr. John Collins has a PhD, a congressional testimony to deliver in the morning, and no interest in spending his train ride arguing about race with a stranger. Derek Malone - HVAC contractor, three-time Trump voter - has one honest question he can't quite let go of.

Neither man is looking for a fight. That's what makes what happens next matter.By the time their train reaches Washington, John and Derek - along with four other strangers pulled into the conversation, including a Black Army veteran turned small-business owner, a white public defender, a Korean American policy researcher, and a Guatemalan American ER nurse - will have covered more ground than any of them expected: the actual science behind race, the myths that outlived slavery, the algorithms quietly deciding who gets hired and who gets suspected, the wealth gap that survives good intentions, and the hundred-year-old book that started all of it.Nobody fully agrees by the end. That was never the point.From Superman to Human reimagines J. A. Rogers's landmark 1917 book, From "Superman" to Man - written by a Pullman porter who out-argued a U.S. senator using nothing but evidence - for a country still asking many of the same questions.Every chapter ends with an Evidence File: a plain accounting of what the research actually shows, where serious scholars still disagree, and how much confidence the claim actually deserves. No side gets the benefit of the doubt. Not even Rogers's own claims escape the same scrutiny.This is a novel built the way an argument should be - out loud, in good faith, and never afraid of the facts.Perfect for readers of contemporary fiction that takes on hard questions with both intellectual honesty and genuine heart - and for book clubs and discussion groups looking for something that generates real conversation instead of just more heat.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175467087
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published