George S. Schuyler 3 hr 34 min read

A process turns Black Americans white overnight, and a satirist follows the hilarious, savage consequences for a nation obsessed with race.

George S. Schuyler's 1931 novel is a landmark of American satire and one of the first science-fiction novels by a Black author, imagining 'Black-No-More' treatments that upend the whole economy of racism, skewering everyone from Klansmen to civil-rights leaders. Biting, funny, and fearless. Read it for a groundbreaking, still-startling social satire that turns the color line inside out.

In its time

Published in 1940, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

3 hr 34 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).