he color lines of blacks is closed. The two novels take different approa!
ches when examining the color complex. Schuyler supports the split according to gradations of color and ridicules it. He provides a solution with the amalgamation of races at the end. Williams deals with it by showing all the various skin tones as beautiful and equal by defining them as food not mentioning the differences as socially significant.
George Schuyler's Black No More, because it is a satire takes truths of African American culture and societal idiosyncrasies and embellishes them into an ironical depiction of what seems to be the essence of blackness. Black No More is the story of Max Disher (later Matthew Fisher) who undergoes the new invention that makes blacks white through a special electrochemical process. The invention is a great success, and the entire black population eventually seeks the new treatment. However, since race relations are as important as they are to Am
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