Tag Archives: Ralph Ellison

Invisible Men (and Women) No Longer

By Robin Bates | Published: November 24, 2014

Immigrants coming out of the shadows recall Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, who also emerges from darkness.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 20, 2014

Tuajuanda Jordan, our college’s newest president, turned to Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” to articulate her vision for the future.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 29, 2014

Projection helps explain many of the killings of unarmed young black men. Ralph Ellison is an expert on how projection works.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 16, 2013

Novelist Susan Bender says that a literary understanding would have prevented the Trayvon Martin killing.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 15, 2013

The racial profiling at the heart of the Trayvon Martin killing is captured nowhere better than in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.”

By Robin Bates | Published: January 24, 2013

Like Ellison’s Invisible Man, Obama may have started off naive but he’s wised up.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 4, 2012

Obama has had to to resist black male anger such as that described in Eliison’s “Invisible Man.”

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By Robin Bates | Published: August 28, 2012

Ellison’s “Invisible Man” helps us understand Obama’s and America’s, intricate dance with race issues.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 17, 2012

Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” remains relevant, including to the Trayvon Martin case.