Black No More by George S Schuyler

Black No More by George S Schuyler

The landmark comic satire that asks, What would happen if all black people in America turned white?

It's New Year's Day 1933 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr. Junius Crookman has discovered a mysterious process that allows people to bleach their skin white--a new way to solve the American race problem. Max leaps at the opportunity, and after a brief stay at the Crookman Sanitarium, he becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man who is able to attain everything he has ever wanted: money, power, good liquor, and the white woman who rejected him when he was black.

Lampooning myths of white supremacy and racial purity and caricaturing prominent African American leaders like W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, and Marcus Garvey, Black No More is a masterwork of speculative fiction and a hilarious satire of America's obsession with race.

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George Schuyler (1895-1977), one of the most renowned African-American journalists of the early twentieth century, worked for the Pittsburgh Courier, which was black America's most significant daily, as well as H.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780375753800
ISBN 10	037575380X
Title	Black No More
Author	George S Schuyler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1999-06-29
Number of pages	208
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