{"id":24713,"date":"2012-08-08T01:58:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24713"},"modified":"2019-08-30T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:45:11","slug":"black-no-more-being-an-account-of-the-strange-and-wonderful-workings-of-science-in-the-land-of-the-free-ad-1933-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24713","title":{"rendered":"Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/162795\/black-no-more-by-george-schuyler\/9780375753800\/#blurb_tabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Random House<\/a><br \/>\n1999 (Originally Published: 1931)<br \/>\n208 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-375-75380-0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Schuyler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George S. Schuyler<\/a><\/strong> (1895-1977)<\/p>\n<p>Introduction by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ishmael_Reed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ishmael Reed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/162795\/black-no-more-by-george-schuyler\/9780375753800\/#blurb_tabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/images\/dyn\/cover\/?source=9780375753800&amp;height=450&amp;.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 <em>Black No More<\/em>, George S. Schuyler&#8217;s satiric romp. <em>Black No More<\/em> 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. <em>Black No More<\/em> is a hysterical exploration of race and all its self-serving definitions. If you can&#8217;t beat them, turn into them.<\/p>\n<p>Ishmael Reed, one of today&#8217;s top black satirists and the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mumbo_Jumbo_(novel)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mumbo Jumbo<\/a><\/em> and <em>Japanese by Spring<\/em>, provides a spirited Introduction.<\/p>\n<p>The fertile artistic period now known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harlem Renaissance<\/a> (1920-1930) gave birth to many of the world-renowned masters of black literature and is the model for today&#8217;s renaissance of black writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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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