"The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World”

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Title	"The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World”
Year for Search	1936
Authors	[Schuyler], [George Samuel](1895-1977)
Secondary Authors	Hill, Robert A., and Rasmussen, R. Kent
Tertiary Authors	Brooks, Samuel I. [pseud.]
Secondary Title	The Pittsburgh Courier
Date Published	November 21, 1936 - July 3, 1937
Keywords	African American author, Male author
Annotation	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.
Additional Publishers	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. 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), 1-142ith a “Foreword” by John A. Williams (ix-xv), an “Afterword” by the editors (259-323), “Schuyler’s story notes (ca. 1936-1937)” (325-27), and “Bibliography: George S. Schulyer’s Pittsburgh Courier fiction, 1944-1939” (337-44).
Info Notes	See also 1931 Schuyler
Pseudonym	Samuel I. Brooks [pseud.]
Author Note	The author (1895-1977) was an African American journalist
Full Text	1936-37 [Schuyler, George Samuel] (1895-1977). “The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World.” By Samuel I. Brooks [pseud.]. 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), 1-142 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 (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. PSt 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. The author was an African American journalist.