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All of this pageantry in the story leads Busby to view Trueblood as "a trickster who realizes that by becoming the white community's stereotypical black, he fulfills their expectations and becomes a 'true blood' or pure stereotype" Trueblood and Norton are analyzed and compared/contrasted. Their separate effects on IM are also highlighted.

This timeline, and the following pages which bring the information to current day, serves the purpose of providing accurate information on the history of slavery and racism in the United States. Starting with the original enslaving of Africans in Jamestown and other colonies, it describes the gross injustices committed by whites throughout the years.

This compilation is based around the book Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings, and co-produced and annotated by that volume's editor, Robert G. O'Meally. The idea is to assemble various pieces of music with some connection to Ellison or his writings, with the specific threads -- a direct comment Ellison might have made on a track, for instance, or a song that's referred to in one of his stories -- explained in O'Meally's notes.

This is a track listing of an album composed of tracks that influenced Ellison in his work. An aspiring musician who went to school to study it, Ellison also grew close with many famous musicians in Harlem. These artists, including Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were an essential part of a thriving social scene in Harlem while Ellison wrote invisible man. The last track is a recording of Ellison's 1964 address at the Library of Congress. He speaks about "blind men on corners" and the blacks who pretend to be part of a successful white society, people whom Malcolm X spoke so strongly against years later.

Fewer Than 1 in 5 Express Favorable View Of The Religion

A poll that was taken a little less than two years ago shows that 45% of Americans are unfavorable of the religion of Islam, and Muslim people in generally. This number jumped from 33% in 2002, generally due to terrorist acts being blamed on the religion as a whole. Malcolm X was one of the first outspoken supporters of the religion in America, one in which many Americans generally do not have much knowledge about. He spoke about Islam and its role in America in a time when people disliked it because it seemed strange. Today, Americans are more knowledgeable about the religion, but obviously still highly ignorant and deluded into thinking that it is the cause of actions performed by terrorists.

While the rest of the world was busy bashing African Americans and blacks in general, women were also fighting for their rights and being oppressed by all different races. Ellison displays this in IM by making women IM's weakness and using them as "bait"

Source discusses the name trouble: the blacks are given names by their white slaveholders. Links to IM---blacks cannot find their own identity if they are being named and depersonified by the whites! Also discusses Malcolm's mom, who suffers, like IM, to the point of losing her mind and sanity, all at the hands of the white oppressors. 

A study shows that many white people are able to identify blurry pictures of gorillas easier when first shown pictures of black people, demonstrating that many white people do not view black people as being on their same level.

This discusses Washington's approach to the betterment of his race. Like many of the other approaches, education is a key point; however, unlike many others, Washington's approach lacks the action necessary for great change.

This discusses the importance of education in strengthening one's rights and realizing freedom from poverty. This connects to how Malcolm X and IM are increasingly able to exercise rights and control, as they become more educated. 

This approaches blindness from a bit of a different angle. the author brings up many of the publicly denied theories of scientists that, in their denial, caused severe damage. Similar to in these two books, it was not until people were awakened that improvement occurred. 

this discusses the archetypal oppression situation. As one group is oppressed, before trying to liberate themselves, they try to conform to the way of their oppressors because they sub-consciously redefine what it is to be a human. We see examples of this in both Malcolm x and Invisible man.

This literary review of IM praises the plot line, and discusses its relevancy to not only Harlem, but everywhere in the world where a social norm has developed. 

For there is a way for Negro novelists to go at their problems, just as there are Jewish or Italian ways. Mr. Ellison has not adopted a minority tone. If he had done so, he would have failed to establish a true middle-of-consciousness for everyone. In all other parts of the country people live in a kind of vastly standardized cultural prairie, a sort of infinite Middle West, and that means that they don't really live and they don't really do anything. Invisibility touches everyone, and Ellison helps to bring this fact to light.

"Most Americans thus are Invisible." Discusses both the faults of the novel as well as the powerful impact of the novel, and the application of it to all Americans, both past and contemporary. 

This article discusses police brutality cases, a reoccurring event in IM and Malcolm X. Often this brutality is a result of discrimination based on race, age sex, etc. 

"Stereotype threat is a complex psychological phenomenon that occurs only when several related factors coincide. Research evidence shows that for people to be affected by it, they must be high performers-people who care about doing well, rather than people who have dissociated themselves from striving for high achievement" "They found that, after adjusting for initial differences in SAT scores, black students at Stanford University who took a challenging verbal test answered approximately 10 percent fewer questions correctly than whites did-but only if they believed that the test was a measure of their ability. If they were told that the test measured "psychological factors involved in solving verbal problems," the black-white test score difference was eliminated." This article discusses the negative effects stereotyping has on the sub-conscience and different triggers of invisibility.

This article talks about the Invisible Man in a more historic and political context, examining different political atmospheres in Harlem and the brotherhood.

Ellison's difficulty, one cause of all the cuts, is that matter of self-definition. At a time when many blacks, especially the young, are denying all influences of American culture, Ellison, as always, doggedly affirms his identity as a Negro-American, a product of the blending of both cultures "I don't recognize any white culture," he says. "I recognize no American culture which is not the partial creation of black people. I recognize no American style in literature, in dance, in music, even in assembly-line processes, which does not bear the mark of the American Negro." Unlike Malcolm, he blends American and African. Like Malcolm, however, he sees that black people have a much larger influence on American life than given credit for.

I forgot the quotes, but since this is a pdf I can't copy and paste direct quotations. But, it mainly focuses on the leg chain and the effect that Tarp has on IM and his journey and growth.

Discusses the loss of identity that IM undergoes as he is constantly viewed as a member of a race, rather than as an individual human. The source goes on to mention the stripping away of IM's individuality by the society around him, which refuses to acknowledge his human presence. Like a clown in a circus, no one takes him seriously, he is a means to an end. It ends by discussing how he has for so long allowed others to shape who he is; finally, in his hole, he himself decides to shape his own fate.