Black No More: A Satirical Novel of Race, Identity, and America

What would happen to America if anyone could simply change their race?Dr. Junius Crookman has developed an astonishing scientific procedure capable of transforming Black Americans into people who appear completely white. Max Disher is among the first to undergo the treatment. Reinventing himself as Matthew Fisher, he discovers that his new appearance grants him access to a world previously closed to him-and provides an extraordinary opportunity to observe the absurdities of America's racial divisions from the inside.As millions embrace the Black-No-More process, the nation's carefully maintained racial hierarchy begins to collapse. Politicians, businessmen, racial organizations, and self-appointed defenders of white supremacy scramble to preserve institutions whose very existence depends upon knowing who is Black and who is white. George S. Schuyler turns the resulting chaos into a fierce satire of racism, hypocrisy, political opportunism, and the American obsession with racial classification.Both wildly comic and deeply provocative, Black No More uses speculative fiction to ask uncomfortable questions about identity, prejudice, power, and who profits from racial division. Nearly a century after its appearance, Schuyler's audacious premise remains startlingly effective.