Tag Archives: Ralph Ellison

The Race Projection behind the Killings

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.

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Vague Identity Adjectives Killed Trayvon

By Robin Bates | Published: July 16, 2013

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

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Trayvon Was an Invisible Man

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.”

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No Longer Rolled by the GOP

By Robin Bates | Published: January 24, 2013

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

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Invisible Obama, Point of Projection

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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Ellison and Obama’s Racial Tightrope Walk

By Robin Bates | Published: August 28, 2012

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

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Ellison’s Invisible Man, Always Relevant

By Robin Bates | Published: April 17, 2012

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

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Why Obama Hatred? Ask Ellison, Baldwin

By Robin Bates | Published: April 5, 2012

What causes Obama-derangement? Ellison’s “Invisible Man” and Baldwin’s “Go Tell It on the Mountain” offer explanations.

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Fed, Rafa, Djoker–A Sibling Drama

By Robin Bates | Published: September 19, 2011

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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