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Black no more

George Samuel Schuyler

1931180 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1931
first published
  • 1931The Macaulay company · ENG
  • 1969McGrath Pub. Co. · 250 pages · ENG
  • 1969Negro Universities Press · 250 pages · ENG
  • 1971Collier Books · 222 pages · ENG
  • 1989Northeastern University Press · 222 pages · ENGISBN 9781555530631
  • 1999Modern Library · 180 pages · ENGISBN 9780375753800

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.

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Emotional toneIronic
HumourWry

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