The landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black
people in America turned white?"
The basis for the Broadway musical written by John Ridley with music
by Tariq Trotter and choreography by Bill T. Jones
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 is able to attain everything he
has 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.
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