FROM BLACK TO WHITE: A STUDY OF GEORGE SCHUYLER’S BLACK NO MORE
The examination of George Schuyler’s Black No More has enabled me to find out how black characters are humiliated, mocked, punished, beaten, rejected, and victimized by their white counterparts because of their blackness in the United States. The influence of the white man’s ideology restricting the right of freedom to white skin urges them to have their dark skin bleached as a process of acceptance and integration in the American society. Such is the case of the protagonist Max Disher, who needs to enjoy the full fruition of the American democracy and accepts to have his dark skin bleached by Dr. Crookman. However, this bleaching process does not meet his demands because he experiences racial injustice from Whites, who call him “whitened Negro”. In George Schuyler's novel, this dreadful experience establishes the invasion of postmodernism. However, this regard is a nightmare, for they are always refused by their white peers, who oppress them to remember their inferiority, despite their new appearance after discovering their true identity. I acknowledge that Schuyler has succeeded in linking history and fiction in his narrative by taking account of the social reality of the Blacks in the World of White Man.