| Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Working of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 Contributor(s): Schuyler, George Samuel (Author), Miller, James (Other) |
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ISBN: 155553063X ISBN-13: 9781555530631 Publisher: Northeastern University Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1989 Annotation: 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 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. Ishmael Reed, one of today's top black satirists and the author of Mumbo Jumbo and Japanese by Spring, provides a spirited introduction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | African American - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89016345 |
| Lexile Measure: 1020 |
| Series: New England Library of Black Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.65 lbs) 222 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. Ishmael Reed, one of today's top black satirists and the author of Mumbo Jumbo and Japanese by Spring, provides a spirited introduction. |