TY - ABST T1 - "The Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa” Y1 - 1937 A1 - [George Samuel] [Schuyler] (1895-1977) ED - Robert A. Hill ED - R. Kent Rasmussen KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 143-258 with a “Foreword” to the volume by John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (xvii-xx), an “Afterword” by the editors (259-323), “Schuyler’s story notes (ca. 1936-1937)” (325-27), and George S. Schuyler’s Pittsburgh Courier fiction, 1933-1939)” (337-44). Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 169-305, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (310-312), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes Black Empire (336-338) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359). PSt

Sequel to 1936-7 Schuyler in which the Black Internationale is established in Liberia to carry out its mission of liberating Africa. After Liberia is attacked by European forces, much of the novel is on the war. Everyone is required to have a thorough physical exam, and if they are found to have an incurable disease, they are euthanized. On the other hand, they have developed permanent cures for many diseases. Model kitchens that will be established throughout Africa both prepare food for the district and are used to teach people the relationship between a good diet and health. Schuyler describes the development of the movement in “The Rise of the Black Internationale.” The Crisis 25.8 (August 1938): 255-57, 274-75, 277. Rpt. in his Black Empire Comprising The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World and Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 328-336; and in Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 29-36. See also 1931 Schuyler. 

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Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 169-305, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (310-312), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes Black Empire (336-338) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World” Y1 - 1936 A1 - [George Samuel] [Schuyler] (1895-1977) ED - Robert A. Hill ED - R. Kent Rasmussen KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A novella in which an African American brings together African American professionals, the Black Internationale, to liberate Africa from white colonial oppression using whatever means is available, including a level of violence comparable to that of the colonists. Schuyler stresses the exceptional quality of the people involved and makes clear that not all blacks as intelligent. 1937-8 Schuyler is a sequel. Schuyler describes the development of the movement in “The Rise of the Black Internationale.” The Crisis 25.8 (August 1938): 255-57, 274-75, 277. Rpt. in his Black Empire Comprising The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World and Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 328-336; and in Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 29-36. See also 1931 Schuyler. 

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Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (November 21, 1936 - July 3, 1937). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 1-168, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (307-310), Appendix B “Notes for ‘The Black Internationale’” (313-316), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes The Black Internationale (331-336) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359).

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Samuel I. Brooks [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black No More: Being An Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 Y1 - 1931 A1 - George S[amuel] Schuyler (1895-1977) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. The personal and social effects of a process to whiten black skins. See also 1936-37 and 1937-38 Schuyler. A musical, based loosely on the novel, directed by Scott Elliott, written by John Ridley, lyrics and music by Tariq Trotter; music by Anthony Tidd, James Poyser and Daryl Waters; and choreographed by Bill T. Jones, was performed at the Pershing Square Signature Center, New York City, in February 2022. His “Our Greatest Gift to America.” Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea, Ed. Charles Spurgeon Johnson (New York: Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life: National Urban League, 1927). Rpt. in Anthology of American Negro Literature. Ed. V. F. Calverton (New York: The Modern Library, 1929), 405-12 resonates with this book in that the gift is flattering whites. See also the author’s autobiography, Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George S. Schuyler. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1966; and Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. 

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Rpt. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969; College Park, MD: McGrath Publishing Co., 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989; without the subtitle. London: The X Press, 1998; as Black No More. A Novel. New York: The Modern Library, 1999 with an “Introduction” by Ishmael Reed (ix-xiii); with the subtitle in Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s. Not Without Laughter Langston Hughes Black No More George Schuyler The Conjure Man Dies Rudolph Fisher Black Thunder Arna Bontemps. Ed. Rafia Zafar (New York: The Library of America, 2011), 219-372; and with the subtitle New York: Penguin Books, 2018, with an “Introduction” by Danzy Senna (ix-xix)An excerpt was rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 35-50; and in Norton Anthology of African-American Literature. Ed. Henry, Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie Smith. 2 vols. 3rd. ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), 1: 122-37. 

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