Category: black no more
Madam CJ Walker, Dr. Crookman, and Profiting on Skin Alteration
Madam CJ Walker Skin Brightener (Photo below) Firstly, Madam CJ Walker’s use of the word “Sallow” I find disturbing, as one of the implicit connections this word makes is that having darker skin is “unhealthy.” This product shows a real-world relation to the Black No More company’s desire to create a product that feeds into…
Post Challenge 1: Switching Race In Seconds
BuzzFeedVideo. “People React To FaceApp’s Racial Face Filter.” YouTube, YouTube, 10 Aug. 2017, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDpmrNSZ_No . In this video, people are reacting to an app that allows people to add filters to their faces. It allows the user to see their faces when they are old, young, or the opposite gender. A new update though claimed to…
Dr. Napolean Wellington Jackson as James Weldon Johnson
Schuyler uses very obscure names for prominent characters in Black No More. These humorous names hold tremendous meaning to his message and often link to people in real life. One of these notable characters is Dr. Napoleon Wellington Jackson who is the office chairman of the National Social Equality League. His appearance is described as…
Dr. Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard: A Humble Man
W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the leading 20th century advocates for African-American rights, was born in 1885 in a mostly white Massachusetts town. His father, a Haitian-born immigrant, deserted his family when Du Bois was only two (Holt). Under the care of his mother, Du Bois, who identified himself as mulatto, attended school with whites…
The Snobbcraft and Buggerie of Woodrow Wilson
President of Princeton University and the United States (though not simultaneously) Woodrow Wilson was born to Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Minister Joseph Ruggles Wilson and his wife Janet Woodrow Wilson in a homestead in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856 (Cooper; Ambar: “Life Before”). His father a chaplain in the Confederate Army during his boyhood years, Wilson…
Passing, No Science Required
Earlier this summer I saw an article about the actress Tessa Thompson that announced that she would be starring in an upcoming movie adaptation of the book Passing, by Nella Larsen. I had read the book Passing for summer reading in high school. The plotline of the book centers around two childhood friends, both light-skinned…
Black No More vs Watermelon Man (1970)
Watermelon Man (1970), directed by Melvin Van Peebles, is an American comedy-drama film starring Godfrey Cambridge. The film centers on a bigoted white insurance agent, married with two children, wakes up to find that he is now a black man. His doctor suggests he might be more comfortable with a black doctor; his neighbors want him…
Transforming into a White Man to Infiltrate Hate
A movie that in some ways reminds me of the book, “Black No More” was the 2018 film, “Blackkklansman”, directed by Spike Lee. It was based on a memoir by Ron Stallworth and is set in the 1970s of Colorado Springs. It follows the first African-American detective in the city’s police department as he sets out…
Marcus Garvey/ Santop Licorice in Schuyler’s “Black No More”
Marcus Garvey was born in 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, as the youngest of eleven children. His father was a mason, his mother a domestic worker and the family was relatively comfortable during Garvey’s early life. (BBC) He attended school until the age of fourteen, when financial strains forced him to abandon his education…
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