1. Chapters 1-3: My Country ‘Tis of Thee
Black No More
Chapters 1-3: My Country ‘Tis of Thee

2. Max Disher Before
“He was young, he wasn’t broke, but he was damnably blue…How could he share the hilarity of the crowd when he had no girl?...[S]he’d grown uppity. Stuck on her color” (Schuyler 1).
“She made a little disdainful grimace with her mouth, shrugged daintily and dismissed the unpleasant incident” (5).
“‘My sociology teacher had once said that there were but three ways for the Negro to solve his problem in America…to either get out, get white, or get along’” (8).

3. The Change
“It wasn’t as if Max was going across the ocean to some foreign country; there would be a wider gulf separating them: the great sea of color” (19-20).

4. Max Disher After
“As a white man he could go anywhere, be anything he wanted to be, do most anything he wanted to do, be a free man at last…and probably be able to meet the girl from Atlanta. What a vision!” (7).
“The world was his oyster and he had the open sesame of a pork- colored skin!” (14).
“He glanced in a superior manner at the long line of black and brown folk on one side of the corridor” (15).

5. The Black No More Partners (pg. 26-28)
12 million people at $50 each equals $60M
With inflation, that would be equivalent to $1.1B in 2018
Hank Johnson – ex-con, gambler, and racketeer
Helped pay for Dr. Crookman’s schooling
Chuck Foster – realtor, philanthropic, doesn’t want the spotlight
Brought in by Hank Johnson, also gave to other struggling black students
Dr. Junius Crookman – studious, naïve, described as a “race man”
Convinced that his methods are going to be good for the black community
This directly relates to basic dystopian set-up (what is good for some, must be good for all)

6. Crookman and “The Negro Art Hokum”
Schuyler argued in the article we read last block that socio-economic status was the difference between people instead of race
Crookman seems to share the same thoughts:
“‘There is no such thing as Negro dialect…It is a well-known fact among informed persons that a Negro from a given section speaks the same dialect as his white neighbors…There are no racial or color dialects; only sectional dialects’” (11).
The Southern whites, however, have a different opinion:
“‘Day by day we see the color line which we have so laboriously established being rapidly destroyed’” (25).

7. My Country ‘Tis of Thee
Though Crookman believes that he has the answer to the problems of the entire country, he fails to realize that this country is not the same to all that see it.
“What a treat it would be to mingle with white people in places where as a youth he had never dared to enter. At last he felt like an American citizen” (23).
We will read the famous American song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” and W.E.B. DuBois’ response of the same name
When done, create your own version of the song mirroring the lyrics in the way DuBois did
Yours should be your personal view of America focusing on what you see
It does not have to be positive or negative, it simply needs to be yours