2015 Reprint of 1931 Printing. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This celebrated Picaresque novel is a 1931 Harlem Renaissance era satire on American race relations. Schuyler targets both the KKK and NAACP in condemning the ways in which race functions as both...
For fans of the Oscar-winning film American Fiction the landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black people in America turned white?"--featuring an introduction by Danzy Senna, the bestselling author of Caucasia and Colored Television...
A biting 1931 science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of Afrofuturism. It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just heard the news: a mysterious doctor has discovered a strange process that...
According to Max Disher, an ambitious young black man in 1930s New York, someone of his race has only three alternatives: "Get out, get white, or get along." Incapable of getting out and unhappy with getting along, Max leaps at the remaining possibility. Thanks to a certain Dr...
What would happen if science gave Black Americans the choice to become white? Mirroring Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940,...
Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp, 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...
George S. Schuyler's Afrofuturistic novel Black No More, originally published in 1931, imagines a world where Black Americans have the chance to cross the color line and become white. What would happen if science gave Black Americans the choice to become...
Soon to be a Broadway musical! With a book by John Ridley, music by Tariq Trotter, and choreography by Bill T. Jones The landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black people in America turned white?" ...
LARGE PRINT EDITION.What would happen if science gave Black Americans the choice to become white? Mirroring The Blacker the Berry, by Wallace Thurman, George S. Schuyler's Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in...
Soon to be a Broadway musical! With a book by John Ridley, music by Tariq Trotter, and choreography by Bill T. Jones The landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black people in America turned white?" ...
A scathingly humorous look at pre-war race relations, this is an extraordinary satire on the the theme of colour. When a New York physician discovers a method to turn black people white, the longest line of clients that Harlem has ever seen forms outside his surgery. The doctor...
What would happen to the race problem in America if black people could suddenly become white?