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Black Empire

by George S. Schuyler, John A. Williams · 1991

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Imagine W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and Marcus Garvey rolled into one fascist superman, and there you have Dr. Henry Belsidus. . . [The novels] are an Afrocentrist's dream. — Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times Book Review

Genre
science fiction
Themes
African American
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 368 pages

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