George Schuyler: Black No More

DANZY SENNA is the author of the novels New People , Symptomatic , and Caucasia , a national bestseller that won the Stephen Crane Award for Best New Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award and was translated into nearly a dozen languages. A recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, Senna is also the author of the memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night? and the story collection You Are Free. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.

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First published in the United States of America by The Macaulay Company 1931

This edition with an introduction by Danzy Senna published in Penguin Books 2018

Introduction copyright © 2018 by Danzy Senna

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Ebook ISBN: 9781524705749

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895–1977, author.

Title: Black no more / George S. Schuyler ; introduction by Danzy Senna.

Description: New York : Penguin Classics, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017043210 (print) | LCCN 2017046751 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524705749 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143131885 (softcover) | ISBN 9781524705749 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: African Americans—Fiction. | Human skin color—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / African American / General. | FICTION / Literary. |FICTION / Satire. | GSAFD: Picaresque literature. | Humorous fiction. | Satire.

Classification: LCC PS3537.C76 (ebook) | LCC PS3537.C76 B56 2018 (print) |

DDC 813/.52—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017043210

Cover art: Untitled (Dotun. Enugu, Nigeria), 2012. © Toyin Ojih Odutola. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

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