Incognegro by Mat Johnson

“Race is a strategy. The rest is just people acting. Playing roles. That’s what white folks never get. They don’t think they have accents. They don’t think that they eat ethnic foods. Their music is classical. They think they’re just normal. That they are the universal and that everyone else is an odd deviation from form. That’s what makes them so easy to infiltrate.”

 A graphic novel set in the 1930s. Zane Pinchback is a reporter for a newspaper in New York City who investigates lynchings in the South. Zane is a black man who is light skinned enough to pass as a white man. Zane is able to infiltrate white society to gather important information about the lynchings. When Zane’s twin brother gets himself into trouble Zane must go back home to try to rescue him. While there Zane goes on a crazy adventure meeting up with some past acquaintances.