Black Empire

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author = George S. Schuyler
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country = United States
language = English
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publisher = Pittsburgh Courier
release_date = 1936-1938
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"Black Empire" was a tongue-in-cheek speculative fiction novel by conservative African American writer George S. Schuyler originally published under his pseudonym of Samuel I. Brooks. The two halves of the book originally ran as weekly serials in the Pittsburgh Courier. ""Black Internationale" ran in the Courier from November 1936 to July 1937, "Black Empire" ran from October 1937 to April 1938. Combined and edited by Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen, editors at UCLA's Marcus Garvey Papers, the collected novel detailed the attempts of a radical African American group called the Black Internationale, equipped with superscience and lead by the charismatic Doctor Belsidus, who succeed in creating their own independent nation on the African continent. The novel is believed to be a lampoon of Marcus Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement and the Black Star Line.

ee also

* African American literature
* Afrofuturism

References

* [http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/16/Black%20Empire.htm Brothers Judd review of Black Empire]
* [http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/schuyler.html George S. Schuyler Bibliography & Chronology]