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The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This quote from Ralph Ellison's review of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal's book An American Dilemma (which explores the roots of prejudice and racism in the U.S.) anticipates the premise of Invisible Man: Racism is a devastating force, possessing the power to render black Americans virtually invisible. He seems rather to exist in the nightmarish fantasy of the white American mind as a phantom that the white mind seeks unceasingly, by means both crude and subtle, to slay." ("An American Dilemma: A Review," Shadow and Act) "In our society, it is not unusual for a Negro to experience a sensation that he does not exist in the real world at all. ![]()
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