. >> a lot of harlem renaissance literature that's kind of thinking about this. one of my favorite novels is called black no more by george skyler who was an author and actually really kind of critical about the idea of like he was critical of the idea of there being distinct black culture, but sort of in this novel sort of begins in this mixed-race jazz setting and one of the characters -- she's like, no. and they're like, oh, they are here bowknot going to go all the way. it was a science fiction novel because it's about the procedure where you -- all the black people turn white. but also, there's a novel in heaven which has like this glossary and all of these, but has all of these jazz terms that you're supposed to -- i don't know if you're supposed to reference them as you're reading the novel but it's like, honky is a white person. but it's all in that setting and it's very inflict bid jeff and really thinking about the sort of cross racial of that. but that is just to say that i'm not a jazz expert but there's so much interesting stuff there that i think re