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Article
Racism Reflected in Invisible Man
Author(s)
JING Jing
PENG Ya-nan
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2016.02.007
Affiliation(s)
Changchun University, Changchun, China
Lianghe State Administration Taxation, Yunnan, China
ABSTRACT
Ralph
Waldo Ellison is one of the most distinguished African American writers in the
contemporary era. He has a unique writing style because of his unique life
experience. His novel Invisible Man won the National Book Award in 1953.
He describes the hardship
of the black and the racial discrimination the black suffered in the United
States in Invisible Man. This paper introduces the racial discrimination in different aspects in
America through the narrator’s experience, including the narrator’s growth
process, employment, and politics. He illustrates a lot of hardship the black
people meet in different society. The black’s rights can not be protected and
they need to be humble to the white. Because of the discrimination, the
narrator lost himself and began to become an invisible man step by step. These
kinds of things are unfair for the black men. They can not realize their social
value under such a circumstance. So, Ellison implies that the black men should
pay attention to this kind of problem and try to transform their identity from
invisible men to visible men.
KEYWORDS
racial discrimination, Racism, Invisible Man
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