The George S. Schuyler Page

( 1895-1977 )

Major Works
"The Negro-Art Hokum" ( 1926 ). Schuyler's denial of a Negro Art in America. Reprinted in The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, pp.96-99.
Black No More, Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A. D. 1933-1940( 1931 ). Reprint with a foreword by James A. Miller. Northeastern, 1989.
Slaves Today: A Story of Liberia ( 1930 ).
Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World ( 1936-37 ). This novella and the next one have been reprinted in Black Empire. Edited, with an afterword, by Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen, Foreword by John A. Williams. Northeastern, 1991.
Black Empire, An Imaginative Story of a Great New Civilization in Modern Africa ( 1937-38 ).
Black and Conservative ( 1966 ). Autobiography.

About Schuyler
Michael W. Peplow, George S. Schuyler. Twayne, 1980.
Kathryn Talalay, Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler. Oxford, 1995.

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