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The Absurdity of America: George S. Schuyler’s Black No More
EnterText: an interdisciplinary humanities e-journal
Volume 1, Number 1 (Winter ) Americas, Americans
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Joseph Mills, Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others. One ever feels his two-ness—an American, a Negro—two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striving; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
– W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk ()What do we want? We want to be Americans, full-fledged Americans, with all the rights of other American citizens. But is that all? We who are dark can see America in a way that white Americans can not. And seeing our country thus, are we satisfied with its present goals and ideals?
– W. E. B. DuBois, “Criteria of Negro Art” ()
In George S. Schuyler published Black No More, a satire about Americans’ obsession with race. The book was controversial, in part, because Schuyler mocked African-American leaders. The novel contains parodies of Marcus Garvey, N.A.A.C.P. figures, and Tuskegee leaders. Fo