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Invisible Man
As the book gets started, the narrator is expelled from his Southern Negro college for inadvertently showing a white trustee the reality of black life in the south, including an incestuous farmer and a rural whorehouse. The college director chastises him: "Why, the dumbest black bastard in the cotton patch knows that the only way to please a white man is to tell him a lie! What kind of an education are you getting around here?" Mystified, the narrator moves north to New York City, where the truth, at least as he perceives it, is dealt another blow when he learns that his former headmaster's recommendation letters are, in fact, letters of condemnation. What ensues is a search for what truth actually is, which proves to be supremely elusive. The narrator becomes a spokesman for a mixed-race band of social activists called "The Brotherhood" and believes he is fighting for equality. Once aga…
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Juneteenth
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Shadow and act
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Flying home and other stories
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Living with Music
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Going to the territory
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The collected essays of Ralph Ellison
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Three days before the shooting--
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Homme invisible pour qui chantes-tu ?
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Conversations with Ralph Ellison
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Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
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The Black Ball
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The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison