The Plot of Racial Data and George Schuyler's Black No More.
The characters of George Schuyler's Black No More (1931) share a problem in common. They cannot read data. Foregrounding these scenes of misreading, this article argues that Black No More is a literary and sociological experiment in cultivating precisely that which its characters lack: data literacy...
| Publicado en: | Novel: A Forum on Fiction Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 229 - 255 |
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Duke University Press
Aug2025
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