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Oct 08, 2015voisjoe1_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Watch any Hollywood movie released in the 1940’s and 1950’s and you will realize what Ralph Ellison means by Invisible Man. African-Americans are either totally absent in all white Hollywood films or in them only briefly to carry luggage at train depots or to invisibly serve coffee to their masters in their mansions. And in real society, African-Americans were segregated in ghettos so that White people would not have to see them or to even think about them. In the South it was called slavery, segregation, lynching (de jure) and in the north it was called ghettoization or death by police or mobs (de facto). Ellison explores both North and South in this often surrealistic hell to which African-Americans were subjected on an hourly basis (and often even today in the 21st century). This has to be in the top 5 of all African-American novels written before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s.