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For fans of the Oscar-winning film American Fiction the landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black people in America turned white?"--featuring an introduction by Danzy Senna, the bestselling author of Caucasia and Colored Television... Read Full Overview

2015 Reprint of 1931 Printing. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This celebrated Picaresque novel is a 1931 Harlem Renaissance era satire on American race relations. Schuyler targets both the KKK and NAACP in condemning the ways in which race functions as both... Read Full Overview

According to Max Disher, an ambitious young black man in 1930s New York, someone of his race has only three alternatives: "Get out, get white, or get along." Incapable of getting out and unhappy with getting along, Max leaps at the remaining possibility. Thanks to a certain Dr... Read Full Overview

A biting 1931 science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of Afrofuturism.

What would happen if science gave Black Americans the choice to become white? Mirroring Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940,... Read Full Overview