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Talks about how difficult it is for black women in modern days even with all the succes that blacks have achived. Gives light to the situation that Malcolms mother went through trying to rasie her children as a single mother with little to no income.

Talks about alot of interesting things including the numerous black victories, and the affects of being oppressed and the psychological affects of being treated as a second class citizen

"By showing the prejudice and racism Malcolm X faced since he was young, the reader understands what he advocates for more"

This source discusses what brought Malcolm to his realizations about racism and how he portrays it to the readers in his autobiography. This source argues that it is effective to tell his story and then discuss his views.

An exerpt from a book the couple of pages talk about numerous examples of sight imagery and analyze them providing detailed and thoughtful themes. examples include Dr. Blodsoes glance and how it is able to easily strike fear into the hearts of his students.

"Much of the Invisible Man's experience is betrayal by the people and ideals that he trusts"

This source provides detailed examples of how IM's experiences are plagued by betrayal, both by white people and black people.

"Ultimately, the lack of civil disobedience in Invisible Man follows the lack of recognition and the legal invisibility of African Americans in the United States of the 1930's"

This source criticizes IM for his lack of action. It claims that his lack of disobedience and blindness to his situation ultimately parallels that of many African Americans in the early 1900's, explaining why their oppression was allowed to go on.

"Here, Ellison suggests the narrator's invisibility to the Brotherhood and his blindness to his own exploitation by the group"

This source provides a detailed analysis of the entire novel, highlighting the theme of invisibility and blindness. Here it describes how IM is betrayed by the Brotherhood, and how blind he was to the whole ordeal.

Talks about t he major morals and ideas that Malcolm preached and what his organization stood for, including economic self-sufficiency and racial pride, giving the reader a gooid idea of where Malcolm stood on these ideas.

Gives a brief history of Malcolms life and his journey to becoming one of tbhe leading black speakers of his generation. Though what seperates this from other articles is that it talks alot about other important black leaders opinions on him.

"Distraught when a personal rift between him and Elijah Muhammad-over Muhammad's alleged extramarital affairs, as well as their growing political differences-led to his ouster and silencing"

This provides a detailed overview of the novel, focusing in this section on his falling out with Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm is devastated by this new knowledge and it shows an accurate depiction of how he changed his life when he traveled to Mecca.

"Malcolm describes the typical convert as a man put into a cage by a white judge"

This provides a detailed look at Malcolm's suffering. I focused on how the white people he has encountered in his life have played a large role in it.

This article is from the NY times in the 50s where the author makes several comparisons between the experience that Ellison tells and hell. Helps give a good understanding of how badly conditions were for IM that outside bystandards can compare them to hellish.

Although Americans jump to think of the USA as a free country where people are generally accepting, racism has had an outcome on politics in last 10 years. Immigration policies like those at the Arizone border showcase that racism is still present, even if not against African Americans

· 2,100 entries from 1493 to the present. · Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, and more that bring history to life. · Noted contributors that include Madeleine Albright, Henry Ford, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Edgar Allan Poe. · Photos and multimedia that engage students.

President Truman's speech is actually in favor of eliminating discrimination in the 1960s. It shows that there are positive efforts from the white man's perspective. IM is sometimes too cynical with his outlook of Caucasions.

This graduate school thesis illustrates the racial tensions present in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. The NAACP was just rising to prominence, and many white people considered the black people in Harlem to be "uppity" and presumptuous because the whites considered the blacks to be unable to produce anything of value to society, yet the Harlem Renaissance produced music, literature, and other works of art in spite of such preconceived notions.

· 2,100 entries from 1493 to the present. · Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, and more that bring history to life. · Noted contributors that include Madeleine Albright, Henry Ford, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Edgar Allan Poe. · Photos and multimedia that engage students.

William Harper wrote this passage about the morality of slavery in the 1930s. 70 years after the abolishment of slavery and in the period where IM starts college, the were still radicals who believed that African Americans were so inferioir that they deserved to be enslaved. In his article, Harper brings up the point that it is a part of human nature for the superior to conquer the inferior.

This shows how the narrator moves on with his life after his rebirth. He drops his past and comes out with a racial pride. There is a big difference between the individuals past and the groups history which IM learns here

Winther explains that the imagery used in Invisible Man describes the idea of societal imprisonment that IM experiences. For example, the iron chain that he carries around in his briefcase refers not only to the physical enslavement of the Black people but the emotional and mental restrictions but on them by society.

The murder of Brother Clifton really helps the narrator develop his maturity. This helps him see the individuals rather than the masses thus finally discovering the corruption of the Brotherhood

In this interview, Malcolm X essentially renounces the absolute separatism he used to subscribe to when he announces that people both white and black are equal as and can cooperate as human beings.