Black No More
$26.38
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2021
Summary
A biting science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of Afrofuturism.
It’s New Year’s 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 can turn Black skin white, a new way to ‘solve the American race problem’. Max, who is tired of being rejected and abused because of his dark skin, leaps at the opportunity. After receiving the ‘Black-No-More’ procedure, he becomes…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241505724 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241505720 |
| Author: | George S. Schuyler |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 133g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 111mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Science Fiction |
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A liberating and lacerating critique of American racial madness, capitalism, and white superiority … Black No More resists the push toward preaching and the urge toward looking backward into history. Afrofuturist before such a term existed, it insists, instead, on peering forward into what could come to be. * The New York Review of Books *
About The Author
George S. Schuyler
George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) was one of the most prominent African American journalists of the early twentieth century. Born in Rhode Island, Schuyler spent his early years in New York, before enlisting in the US army in 1912. He returned to New York after briefly being AWOL to pursue a career in journalism. He wrote for black America’s most influential newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, in addition to The Nation, The Washington Post and H. L. Mencken’s The American Mercury.
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