Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed or Hunting in Harlem by Mat Johnson and explore what that text is doing. Remember, satire does not operate in a vacuum. Satire is referential meaning that its making fun of something. So, if your job is to explain what the text is doing, you will also have to understand the topic the novel is referencing. It would be impossible to explain Flight to Canada without some knowledge of U.S. slavery or the Black Arts movement of the 1970s.
You couldn’t explain Hunting in Harlem without some awareness of the Harlem Renaissance, gentrification, the prison industrial complex, or assimilation debates within African American uplift and civil rights.