"Black No More" by George S. Schuyler (1931)
**Legitimately one of the most astoundingly brilliant and absolutely brutal works of satire I've ever read** This book is dedicated to all Caucasians in the great republic who can trace their ancestry back ten generations and confidently assert that there are no black leaves, twigs, limbs or branches on their family trees. OK SO. Let's talk about this book. Written in 1931, but could have been published today as a period piece set in the 1930s. Hell, with a shockingly small number of changes, could have been *set* today. That's how good of a book this is Let's start at the beginning. This book, set in then-modern times of Prohibition-era America, is one of the first ever works of Afrofuturism as it imagines a technology that allows Black (or, presumably, anyone) Americans to undergo a treatment that renders them white. Completely indistinguishable from someone of European descent, these newly white Americans a...