Black No More by George S Schuyler

Black No More by George S Schuyler

Modern Library Harlem Renaissance

What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These questions and more are answered hilariously in Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp. Black No More is the story of Max Disher, a dapper black rogue of an insurance man who, through a scientific transformation process, becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man. Matt dreams up a scam that allows him to become the leader of the Knights of Nordica, a white supremacist group, as well as to marry the white woman who rejected him when he was black. Black No More is a hysterical exploration of race and all its self-serving definitions. If you can't beat them, turn into them.
Ishmael Reed, one of today's top black satirists and the author of Mumbo Jumbo and Japanese by Spring, provides a spirited Introduction.

The fertile artistic period now known as the Harlem Renaissance (1920- 1930) gave birth to many of the world-renowned masters of black literature and is the model for today's renaissance of black writers.

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.

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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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