Previous
Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard/Karl von Beerde
Mrs. Blandish is a businesswoman and Max’s landlady at the beginning of the novel. She owns a hair salon in Harlem, New York, which helps Black people straighten and relax their hair to make it appear more like white people’s hair. She is dismayed at the “Black-No-More” treatment, because it causes her to lose her business. By the end of the novel, Blandish has turned white and changed her name to Sari Blandine. When Americans realize that white people are a few shades darker than Black Americans who have turned white, she becomes successful selling skin stains that make people appear tanner and. Blandish is a parody of Madam C. J. Walker.
Mrs. Sisseretta Blandish/Sari Blandine Quotes in Black No More
The Black No More quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Sisseretta Blandish/Sari Blandine or refer to Mrs. Sisseretta Blandish/Sari Blandine. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
Madame Sisseretta Blandish sat disconsolately in an armchair near the front door of her ornate hair-straightening shop, looking blankly at the pedestrians and traffic passing to and fro. These two weeks had been hard ones for her. Everything was going out and nothing coming in. She had been doing very well at her vocation for years and was acclaimed in the community as one of its business leaders. Because of her prominence as the proprietor of a successful enterprise engaged in making Negroes appear as much like white folks as possible, she had recently been elected for the fourth time a Vice-President of the American Race Pride League.
Related Characters:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Get the entire Black No More LitChart as a printable PDF.
Mrs. Sisseretta Blandish/Sari Blandine Quotes in Black No More
The Black No More quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Sisseretta Blandish/Sari Blandine or refer to Mrs. Sisseretta Blandish/Sari Blandine. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
Madame Sisseretta Blandish sat disconsolately in an armchair near the front door of her ornate hair-straightening shop, looking blankly at the pedestrians and traffic passing to and fro. These two weeks had been hard ones for her. Everything was going out and nothing coming in. She had been doing very well at her vocation for years and was acclaimed in the community as one of its business leaders. Because of her prominence as the proprietor of a successful enterprise engaged in making Negroes appear as much like white folks as possible, she had recently been elected for the fourth time a Vice-President of the American Race Pride League.
Related Characters:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
