Black No More

<p><b>George S. Schuyler's Afrofuturistic novel <i>Black No More</i> originally published in 1931 imagines a world where Black Americans have the chance to cross the color line and become white.</b></p><p>What would happen if science gave Black Americans the choice to become white? Mirroring <i>The Blacker the Berry</i> by Wallace Thurman George S. Schuyler's <i>Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free AD 1933-1940</i> is one of the first Afrofuturistic novels ever published.</p><p>On New Year's Eve Max Disher's romantic advances are rejected on the basis that he is a Black man. Come New Year's Day the answer to his frustration appears in the form of an announcement about a new scientific procedure called "Black-No-More." Believing that his life will have much more fortune in white skin he goes through with the treatment-changing his name to "Matthew Fisher." The newly-made white Max has to decide what it means to live and breathe on the other side of the color line.<p>Since our inception in 2020 Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. <p>With thousands of titles in our collection we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.</p>