Projection helps explain many of the killings of unarmed young black men. Ralph Ellison is an expert on how projection works.
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Vague Identity Adjectives Killed Trayvon
Novelist Susan Bender says that a literary understanding would have prevented the Trayvon Martin killing.
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Trayvon Was an Invisible Man
The racial profiling at the heart of the Trayvon Martin killing is captured nowhere better than in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.”
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Fed, Rafa, Djoker–A Sibling Drama
Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic are like the brothers in a Dostoevsky novel or a Grimm Brothers fairy tale: the two older brothers focus on each other and then the unassuming younger brother comes in and takes over.
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