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New York. 2018. Penguin. 1st Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers With Tear on Front Cover. 9780143131885. Introduction by Danzy Senna. 181 pages. paperback. Cover art: Untitled (Dotun,Enugu,NIgeria) 2012 by Toyin Ojih Odutola. keywords: Literature African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. inventory #43651 Very Good in Wrappers With Tear on Front Cover

"A Negro doctor discovers how to turn black sin white". A Science Fiction novel from 1931. Very obscure and scarce edition. Near fine.

First edition, first printing of one of the earliest Afro-futurism works written. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in black, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with soiling to cloth, wear at corners and spine ends. Paper residue to edges of front free endpaper and ink spots to front pastedown. Pages toned and sporadically soiled, corners creased, some heavily so. A satirical novel of the Harlem Renaissance in where an African American scientist invents a process that can transform Black people into white people. Those who have internalized white racism, those who are tired of inferior opportunities socially and economically, and those who simply want to expand their sexual horizons, undergo the procedure. As the country "whitens", the economic importance of racial segregation in the South as a means of maintaining elite white economic and social status becomes increasingly apparent, as the South relies on Black labor through sharecropping.