Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is a feverishly paced, lyrical portrait of an unnamed African American man in the 1930’s.  Hauntingly beautiful and raw, this book changed how Americans think about race.  Immediately popular and the winner of the National Book Award in 1953, Ralph Ellison’s classic does not fit neatly in any literature genre (is it satire?  Is it fiction?  Is it historical fiction?).  We sit down with two professors from Ellison’s alma mater, Tuskegee University, Dr. Zanice Bond and Dr. Caroline Gebhard to discuss Ellison’s legacy, and the legacy of his most famous work.  Join us.

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Books mentioned in this week's episode:

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison edited by John F. Callahan 
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot 
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 
Post Bellem, Pre Harlem: African American Literature and Culture
1877-1919 by Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard

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