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Tag: George S. Schuyler
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Elevating Social Status by Racial Passing and White Assimilation: in George Schuyler’s Black No More
This paper aims to reconcile the assimilationist views of Schuyler against his larger purpose of empowerment through change. Schuyler focuses on issues of education, economy, and social status to demonstrate his thesis: meaningful change is possible if action is taken.
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He [George Schuyler] was a man of contradictions. For someone so utterly unsentimental and sternly rational about race and blackness, he indulged his wife’s [Josephine Cogdell] strange neoessentialist belief in “hybrid vigor”—that is, her belief that their daughter’s racial fusion of black and white represented the birth of a new, superior race. With Schuyler’s help,…
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There is no stable ground to stand on in “Black No More.” Its irony and merciless satire steadfastly resist the anthropological gaze of the reader. It is a novel in whiteface. And while black literature is almost always read as either autobiography or sociology, Schuyler’s work can be read as neither.
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this study examines the Afrofuturist sensibilities in these two key works of the Harlem Renaissance era and present day to understand how such authors not only counter the troubling histories of their time but also propose counter-futures that would otherwise have been buried beneath the cultural oppression of Jim Crow and other more modern forms…
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Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 Random House 1999 (Originally Published: 1931) 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-75380-0 George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) Introduction by Ishmael Reed What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white?…
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The Absurdity of America: George S. Schuyler’s Black No More EnterText: an interdisciplinary humanities e-journal Volume 1, Number 1 (Winter 2000) Americas, Americans pages 127-148 Joseph Mills, Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professor of the Humanities North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at…