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This satirical Harlem Renaissance-era novel by black conservative intellectual George S. Schuyler (1895-1977), who wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier and contributed to the NAACP's influential Crisis magazine, is a hilariously insightful treatise on the absurdities of racial identity. Dr. Junius Crookman, a Harlem-based African American physician, mysteriously returns from Germany with a formula that can transform black people into whites. "It looked," Schuyler deadpans, "as though science was to succeed where the Civil War failed." One of the first to enlist Dr. Crookman's services is an insurance salesman named Max Disher, who as the white Matthew Fisher is now free to pursue the white women who once rejected him and otherwise bask in Euro-American social privilege (including a top position in a hate group called the Knights of Nordica). Schuyler unveils the futility of this electro-chemical form of "passing" through the emptiness the Disher/Fisher character encounters in the white cultural world, which doesn't measure up to the Harlem nightlife--revealing the poison behind the notion of wanting to be something you're not. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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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 hilariously in Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp. Black No More is the story of Max Disher, a dapper black rogue of an insurance man who, through a scientific transformation process, becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man. Matt dreams up a scam that allows him to become the leader of the Knights of Nordica, a white supremacist group, as well as to marry the white woman who rejected him when he was black. Black No More is a hysterical exploration of race and all its self-serving definitions. If you can't beat them, turn into them.
Ishmael Reed, one of today's top black satirists and the author of Mumbo Jumbo and Japanese by Spring, provides a spirited Introduction.

The fertile artistic period now known as the Harlem Renaissance (1920- 1930) gave birth to many of the world-renowned masters of black literature and is the model for today's renaissance of black writers.

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Life is a Con.......2003-06-08

George Schuyler's (1895-1977) novel, Black No More, is a deliciously wicked satire on 1920s American racial mores. First published in 1931, it was initially reissued during the late 1980s as part of The Northeastern Library of Black Literature.

Like many satires, Black No More takes a common, controversial idea, gives it form in flesh and blood, and plays it out to its logical conclusion: "What if white America didn't have any more negroes to kick around?"

This idea is realized by "Dr. Junius Crookman" (most of the characters have similarly "subtle" names), who invents an operation for turning black folks white. In lightning speed, the nation becomes monochromatic, as its entire black population "disappears."

No lack of comic -- and dramatic -- complications ensue, when it becomes clear that the operation doesn't change the genetic program for the pigmentation of one's offspring.

George Schuyler worked from a few basic premises: Most of humanity is a damned sight closer to the Devil than to the angels; most men are con artists; and the few who truly believe in anything are even worse!

For Schuyler, W.E.B. DuBois' (1868-1963) "talented tenth" of bourgeois negro society was of no more help to the average black than were the leaders of the racist, white order. Indeed, Schuyler saw those who made a living railing against Jim Crow as having the strongest interest in its preservation: every lynching brought in more money from rich, white reformers.

Thinly veiled caricatures portray DuBois ("Dr. Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard") as a hypocrite, and Marcus Garvey (1887-1940; "Santop Licorice"), the founder of the "Back-to-Africa" movement, as a common swindler (for which Garvey was, in fact, convicted in 1920, and deported in 1924).

For Schuyler, black nationalist rhetoric was merely a smokescreen to obscure its practitioners' class contempt for their erstwhile constituents, whose pockets they were busy picking. (Has anything changed in the meantime?!)

Down deep, Schuyler says, we're all the same -- and God save us! Ultimately, he surmises, if there weren't a color line, men would have had to invent one! His metaphor for American race relations was that of an "insane asylum." (Already during the 1920s -- 60 years before Dinesh D'Souza -- Schuyler had written a pamphlet arguing that total miscegenation, eliminating all distinct races, was the sole cure for America's racial madness.)

Though many of Schuyler's characters are -- as per his genre -- stereotypes, the central pair of "Max Discher/Matthew Fisher" and "Bunny Brown" are as engaging a couple of rogues as any you're likely to be fleeced by, this side of Rudyard Kipling or Chester Himes, their banter generously peppered with the black vernacular of the day.

George Schuyler was a great lover of science fiction, especially the then stupendously popular novels of H.G. Wells. He is the only notable black American novelist to smoothly incorporate science fiction motifs into his work. (To Samuel R. Delany fans: I said "notable" and "smoothly.")

In addition to Schuyler's great story, there are two other reasons for reading Black No More.

First, as by far the most influential black newspaperman this nation has ever seen, George Schuyler bestrode the negro press, and thus, negro America, like a colossus.

From 1924-1966, Schuyler worked at black America's most influential newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier. But George Schuyler didn't "write" for the Courier; he WAS the Courier. He wrote the weekly, unsigned house editorial; a weekly column, News and Views; wired in scoops and exposes from around America and the world so amazing as to catch the attention of the day's most respected, white newspapers, who also published his work; penned the pseudonymous, serialized pulp novels and short stories that were the Courier's most popular features; and engaged other prominent contemporaries to write for the Courier. It was Schuyler, for instance, who engaged pop historian J.A. Rogers to write the Courier's immensely popular feature on black history. The various strategies of silence and misrepresentation, which are today used (for instance, by alleged journalist Jill Nelson and by Henry Louis Gates Jr.) to erase or diminish Schuyler's legacy, belong to contemporary black studies and black journalism's many scandals.

The second reason for reading Black No More (together with the serialized novels published in book form as Black Empire) is for Schuyler's role as unwitting intellectual godfather of the Nation of Islam. The Nation stole its theory of the "myth of Yacub," which claims that the white man was created 6,000 years ago by an evil black scientist, from Schuyler's Black No More, except that the Nation, as was its wont, turned Schuyler's story on its head. (Schuyler, for his part, was reworking H.G. Wells' story, The Island of Dr. Moreau.)

So read Black No More, enjoy some belly laughs, and learn some history in the bargain.

Black No More has an overly informative foreword by James A. Miller, which is best read as an afterword (so as not to ruin your enjoyment of the book), to clarify historical questions.

Originally published in 1992 in A Different Drummer magazine.

Wonderful and thought provoking.......2002-07-08

In my search for quality books written by black writers, I stumbled upon BLACK NO MORE and I am so glad that I did. This is a relatively small book, but probably one of the most thought provoking books that I've ever read. It forces you to look at the power of racisim in all of its incarnations, whether it is being imposed on black people from white people or if it is imposed on blacks from their own people. I think that George Schuyler is one of the most unsung heroes of African American literature and all people (especially Black people) should find the time to read his work. I'm currently purchasing anything I can find that he has written.

What it means to be black in America.......2001-07-09

Schuyler may have been a conservative, but his novel is as forward-think today as it had been decades ago. His insightful, satirical, and at times, funny writing, made me think about the meaning of black nationalism and Martin Delaney's comment about blacks being "a nation within a nation". African-Americans have been a critical part of American history, and to suddenly eradicate them from them makes me wonder what America really is about. Everyone should read this book. It will remind them what it means to be, not just an African-American, but an American.

i normally don't think much of conservatives.........2001-03-02

especially black ones, but this book hits the mark in race relations, about how blacks and whites really feel about each other and how much we need each other( whether we want to admit it or not !) this book was light years ahead of other black novels when it was first published and can hold its own against any black novel published today . a black man makes himself white in order to get the woman he loves...what a man will do for love !

Excellent, Timely Satire.......2000-11-22

It seems as if George Schuyler and Spike Lee are kindred spirits, it would be interesting to see what the modern-day director and satirist would do with this 1931 satire of Blacks who become White and the outrageous consequences! If Schuyler were alive (he died in 1976), he'd get two high-fives and a "YOU GO, BOY!" from me!

No More Cold Calling(TM): The Breakthrough System That Will Leave Your Competition in the Dust

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How to Get More Referrals
No More Cold Calling
Interesting approach to an age old topic
Putting the personal back into the art of sales

No More Cold Calling(TM): The Breakthrough System That Will Leave Your Competition in the Dust
Joanne S. Black
Manufacturer: Business Plus
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ASIN: 0446577790

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Cold calling is one of the most awkwardand unsuccessfulways to obtain clients in business. Now Joanne S. Black shares her proven 5-step Referral Selling Methodology, so no businessperson ever has to make a cold call again. In this unique and practical guide, Black offers a tutorial on how to differentiate you from your competitors, make favorable impressions on current clients so theyll refer their acquaintances, and set a hook that will leave them wanting more. NO MORE COLD CALLING provides selling scripts, presentation techniques, troubleshooting advice, and a host of helpful insights to increase any sales forces productivity.

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If You Want to Increase Sales..........2007-05-30

read this book! Joanne Black offers a fresh perspective about how to use referrals to build revenue in today's competitive market. Simple, yet powerful, the book offers a step-by-step approach to implementing a system that works.

How to Get More Referrals.......2007-01-29

If you're not asking for and leveraging referrals to increase your sales, you're making a big mistake. This is especially true in today's corporate environment where decision makers seldom answer the phone, roll all calls to voicemail and never call you back.

In No More Cold Calling, Joanne Black outlines a pathway to build your business via referrals. She very pointedly differentiates between hopeful networking versus strategic referral generation. She stresses the need to:

- Clearly define your ideal customer.
- Focus in on their critical business issues.
- Know your value proposition and ROI.
- Invite others to open the door for you.

For those of you who have read my book (Selling to Big Companies), you'll find this to be a perfect compliment since it tackles a subject I only briefly touch on. And, if you hate to ask for referrals, you need to read No More Cold Calling too.

No More Cold Calling.......2007-01-09

For highly skilled and experienced salespeople, this book is especially incredible. It provides breakthrough thinking. I have been a successful cold call person for 20 years. I have a library of over 300 books on selling and marketing. I own a national marketing agency. This system, though simple, is brillians.

Interesting approach to an age old topic.......2006-09-11

I found the authors approach interesting and applicable. While it is an age old topic, it is certainly not an easy one. She lays things out in a manner that is understandable and easy to take action on. The book offers how to advice that is similar to what has been said before but the approach is a good one and as with most things, if it is to be its up to me. Enjoyed it though.

Putting the personal back into the art of sales.......2006-07-26

Much of the current day thinking and practice about sales is based on talking to as many people as possible, quickly, with the idea that these brief encounters will result in the desired clients. No More Cold Calling puts the personal and the thoughtfulness back into the art of sales. This is a very grounded and practical book, with much wisdom.

Slaves No More: Letters from Liberia, 1833-1869

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Slaves No More: Letters from Liberia, 1833-1869
Bell Irvin Wiley
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Black No More: Being and Account of the Strange and Wonderful Working of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)

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recmmended reading

Black No More: Being and Account of the Strange and Wonderful Working of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
George Samuel Schuyler , and James Miller
Manufacturer: Northeastern
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 155553063X

Book Description

Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp, is the story of Max Disher, a dapper black rogue of an insurance man who, through a scientific transformation process, becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man. Matt dreams up a scam that allows him to become the leader of the Knights of Nordica, a white supremacist group, as well as to marry the white woman who rejected him when he was black. Black No More is a hysterical exploration of race and all its self-serving definitions.

Ishmael Reed, one of today's top black satirists and the author of Mumbo Jumbo and Japanese by Spring, provides a spirited introduction.

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recmmended reading.......1998-08-01

racial and politacal satire at it's most brillant.A very funny read ,as all racial satire should be.

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Black No More
George S. Schuyler
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The "Daily mirror" old codgers little black book no. 3 ; more off-beat information and amusing anecdotes from the "Daily mirror's" Live letters column

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The "Daily mirror" old codgers little black book no. 3 ; more off-beat information and amusing anecdotes from the "Daily mirror's" Live letters column

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Days That Are No More (The Black Heritage Library Collection)

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Days That Are No More (The Black Heritage Library Collection)
Elizabeth Bryant Johnston
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ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY - Volume 59, number 4 - April 1972: The Spy Who Didn't Remember; No Questions Asked; File No. 7: O Black and Unknown Bard; What Hedgepeth Heard; Golden Tuesday; Cornell; Wynken Blynken and Nod; B as in Bandit; Only One Grain More

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ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY - Volume 59, number 4 - April 1972: The Spy Who Didn't Remember; No Questions Asked; File No. 7: O Black and Unknown Bard; What Hedgepeth Heard; Golden Tuesday; Cornell; Wynken Blynken and Nod; B as in Bandit; Only One Grain More
Ellery (editor) (Edward D. Hoch; Berkely Mather; Joe Gores; James Fitzpatrick; Celia Fremlin; Barry N. Malzberg; William Brittain; Lawrence Treat; Michael Gilbert; John Pierce; Cornell Woolrich; John Dickson Carr; Percy Spurlark Parker) Queen
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Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen

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Outstanding, readable book!

Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen
Lisa Anderson
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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ASIN: 0847684199

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Mammies No More explores the ways in which mainstream American plays and films have reflected and helped to reinforce stereotypes of black women. It also shows how African American women playwrights and filmakers have subverted those stereotypes by creating more realistic characters. From Minstrel shows of the mid-nineteenth century to D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, from the movie version ofGone with the Wind to Spike Lee'sShe's Gotta Have It and comtemporary music videos, Anderson shows how portrayals of black women as ignorant mammies, sexually voracious jezebels or coquettish, tragically flawed mulattas have persisted over time. Meanwhile, works by black women, such as Lorriane Hansbery's A Raisin In the Sun and Julies Dashe's Daughters of the Dust, have resisted these stereotypes, showing black women in more positve and realistic ways.

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Outstanding, readable book!.......1997-09-28

This outstanding, readable book examines the images of black women on stage and film. The work, written in clear, beautiful prose, is a creative reading of the relationship between popular cultural representation and the powers of interpretation and imagery. Particularly noteworthy is the author's creative discussion of tragedy. Often, the so-called "tragic mulatta" is analyzed without a theory of tragedy at work. Anderson presents a theory from which the notion of tragedy is shown to be misguided here. Anderson traces the misgudied motif through to contemporary popular cultural representations such as Mariah Carey and Lisa Jones's recent critical work. Chapters are wonderfully characterized: "Mama on the Couch," "Mulattas, Tragedy, and Myth," "the Myth of the Whore," and "Representationand Resistance in an Antiblack World." The discussion avoids reductionism and remains atuned to the travails of contemporary race politics and theory. This is a wonderful book. It should be read widely--not only by students and scholars, but everyday folk who simply would like to gain an understanding of the powers of image and critical insight into the pitfalls of silence. Professor Lewis R. Gordon, Afro-American Studies, Contemporary Religious Thought, Latin American Studies, and Presidential Faculty Fellow of the Pembroke Center for the Study and Teaching of Women, Brown University

More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (Africana Modern Library, No. 20)

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More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (Africana Modern Library, No. 20)
Amy Jacq Garvey
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