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02908aam a2200373 i 4500 001 AAECE334187B11E8BF71915697128E48 003 SILO 005 20180223032641 008 170926s2018 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2017043210 020 $a 0143131885 : PAP 020 $a 9780143131885 : PAP 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GCmBT $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3537.C76 $b B56 2018 082 00 $a 813/.52 $2 23 100 1 $a Schuyler, George S. $q (George Samuel), $d 1895-1977, $e author. 245 10 $a Black no more : $b being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940 / $c George S. Schuyler ; introduction by Danzy Senna. 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Penguin Books, $c [2018] 300 $a xxii, 181 pages ; $c 20 cm 520 $a "The landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black people in America turned white?" It's New Year's Day 1933 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr. Junius Crookman has discovered a mysterious process that allows people to bleach their skin white--a new way to "solve the American race problem." Max leaps at the opportunity, and after a brief stay at the Crookman Sanitarium, he becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man who's able to attain everything he's ever wanted: money, power, good liquor, and the white woman who rejected him when he was black. Lampooning myths of white supremacy and racial purity and caricaturing prominent African American leaders like W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, and Marcus Garvey, Black No More is a masterwork of speculative fiction and a hilarious satire of America's obsession with race. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Human skin color $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Picaresque literature. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Satire. $2 gsafd 650 7 $a FICTION / African American / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Satire. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977. $t Black no more $d New York : Penguin Classics, 2018 $z 9781524705749 $w (DLC) 2017046751 941 $a 2 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629013505.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20180303011202.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AAECE334187B11E8BF71915697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search