Black No More edition by George Schuyler Literature Fiction eBooks
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What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These questions and more are answered in George Schuyler's satiric romp. This is the story of Max Disher, a black rogue of an insurance man who, through a scientific transformation process, becomes Mathew Fisher, a white man. Matt dreams up a scam that allows him to become the leader of the White Knights of Nordica, and marry the caucasian gal who rejected him before his change.
Black No More edition by George Schuyler Literature Fiction eBooks
The most amazing, unbelievable thing about this 1931 classic is how contemporary it feels. It truly serves to underline that nothing has changed under the sun.Except for one thing: nobody would dare publish it in 2018.
Not even the Onion is as irreverent as this little gem of a book, or as unforgiving toward those who purport to care for people of color while actually feathering their own nest.
The spot-on analysis of how politics works is breath-taking.
And it’s hilarious, never more than when it describes the work of social scientists: “Most of the data were highly informative, revealing the amazing fact that poor people went to jail oftener than rich ones; that most of the people were not getting enough money for their work; that strangely enough there was connection between poverty, disease and crime.” Straight out of Vox or five-thirty-eight, basically, but eight decades ahead.
If I do have a peeve, it’s that the author cannot help sympathising with the book’s hero, who joins a white supremacist group as soon as he’s managed to acquire white skin. Reminds me of how people are currently defending Obama’s post-presidential self-enrichment choices (and accusing me of racism when I dare bring them up).
Regardless, this was daring, trenchant and side-splittingly funny, all in the space of 150 pages.
No idea why I’d never come across it, but I’m very glad I now have!
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Black No More edition by George Schuyler Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is a must-read classic. I was laughing out loud! I wish this hilarious tale could be made into a movie starring Eddie Murphy...
Nice short read with comical descriptions of the characters. This book points out the irrational thinking of those that discriminate against people because of skin color.
This book received high ratings for its ability to keep my attention. Held me captive page after page. Very funny and made me laugh at my own insecurity in many references.
Great book!
Schuyler's Dedication
"This book is dedicated to all Caucasians in the great republic who can trace their ancestry back ten generations and confidentially assert that there are no black leaves, twigs, limbs or branches on their family tree."
The book is hilarious and tells many truths. Here are some of the truths
Blacks being color struck
The two had in common a weakness rather prevalent among AfraAmercan bucks they preferred yellow women. Both swore here were three things essential to the happiness of a colored gentleman yellow money, yellow women, and yellow taxis. It was so hard to hold them. They were so sought after that one almost required a million dollars to keep them out of the clutches of one's rivals.
Black Conservatives
Colonel Roberts was the acknowledged leader of the conservative Negroes (most of who had nothing to conserve) who felt at all times that the white folks were in the lead and that Negroes should be careful to guide themselves accordingly.
Black folk supporting black businesses
Mr. Spelling had for many years been the leading advocate of the strange doctrine that an underpaid Negro worker should go out of his way to patronize a little dingy Negro store instead of going to a cheaper and cleaner store, all for the dubious satisfaction of helping Negro merchants grow wealthy.
The Marcus Garvey character
Mr. Licorice for some fifteen years had been very profitable advocating the emigration of all the American Negroes to Africa. He had not, of course, gone there himself and had not the slightest intention of going so far from the fleshpots, but he told the other Negroes go. Naturally the first step in their going was to join his society by paying five dollars a year membership, ten dollars for a gold, green and purple robe and silver-colored helmet that together cost two dollars and a half, etc., etc.
White men only need to tell him that he was shrewder than white men and he would immediately reach for his check book.
Civil Rights Organizations
While a large staff of officials was eager to end all oppression and persecution of the Negro, they were never so happy and excited as when a Negro was barred from a theater or fried to a crisp. Then they would leap for telephones, grab telegraph pads and yell for stenographers; smiling through their simulated indignation at the spectacle of another reason for their continued existence and appeals for funds.
W.E. Dubois character
For a mere six thousands dollar a year, the learned doctor wrote scholarly and biting editorials in The Dilemma denouncing the Caucasians whom he secretively admired and lauding the greatness of the Negroes who he alternatively pitied and despised. In limpid prose he told of the sufferings and privations of the downtrodden black workers with who lives he was totally and thankfully unfamiliar. Like most Negro leaders, he deified the black woman but abstained from employing aught save octoroons. He talked a white banquets about "we of the black race and admitted in books that he was part-French, part-Russian, part-Indian, part-Negro. He bitterly denounced the Nordics for debauching Negro women while taking care to hire comely yellow stenographers with weak resistance.
I really enjoyed reading Black No More. It is quick and easy read. I am so happy that Dark Matters introduced me to George Schuyler. Otherwise, I would not have known him. I also highly recommend Schuyler's Black Empire and Ethiopian stories. This author also to introduced me to The Conjure Man Dies. I can see why the so-called Black elites hated him.
This is the best satire that I have read so far. It mocks the obsession with race in America. Unlike the audio version that I have, this Penguin Classic edition has a wonderful introduction by Danzy Senna. The book is truly amazing. I highly recommend it to all.
This is a wonderfully amusing, biting satire. Much of the subject matter still applies today, only the names of those being satirized have changed. Schulyer's book pokes fun at the underlying truth of race and class in the United States. I would love to see a mini-series made of this in three or four parts, but that would never happen in today's social-political climate. This reminded me of the Dr. Suess story about the Sneetches, and the star belly discrimination that makes the character who owns the means of production wealthy, while sending the Sneetch society into turmoil. I highly recommend this book.
A very funny satirical, even farcical, novel about racism, White Supremacy, and colorism. It has a wonderful sci-fi premise, and proceeds from there. The key to the book is the degree to which White folks freak out when everyone is "White." Sadly, the book is highly applicable today, especially in the Age of Trump and frenzied White Supremacist voters.
The most amazing, unbelievable thing about this 1931 classic is how contemporary it feels. It truly serves to underline that nothing has changed under the sun.
Except for one thing nobody would dare publish it in 2018.
Not even the Onion is as irreverent as this little gem of a book, or as unforgiving toward those who purport to care for people of color while actually feathering their own nest.
The spot-on analysis of how politics works is breath-taking.
And it’s hilarious, never more than when it describes the work of social scientists “Most of the data were highly informative, revealing the amazing fact that poor people went to jail oftener than rich ones; that most of the people were not getting enough money for their work; that strangely enough there was connection between poverty, disease and crime.” Straight out of Vox or five-thirty-eight, basically, but eight decades ahead.
If I do have a peeve, it’s that the author cannot help sympathising with the book’s hero, who joins a white supremacist group as soon as he’s managed to acquire white skin. Reminds me of how people are currently defending Obama’s post-presidential self-enrichment choices (and accusing me of racism when I dare bring them up).
Regardless, this was daring, trenchant and side-splittingly funny, all in the space of 150 pages.
No idea why I’d never come across it, but I’m very glad I now have!
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