1. THE INVISIBLE MAN BY RALPH ELLISON

2. Symbols: Jack Communism in America Blindness: glass eye Sees with only one eye Other eye destroyed by Brotherhood Blind to individuals Does not see the IM Blind to own tendency to manipulate

3. BLINDNESS Blindfolds in Battle Royal Founder’s blindness “Black and blue”: Louis Armstrong: “What did I do to be so black and blue” Rinehard

4. BLACK AND WHITE Illuminated the blackness of his invisibility Light bulbs (1369) Paradox: knowledge (light) needed to accept his blackness Blacks needed to hold up white society Optic White paint: Brockway White cops, black horses White society on backs of black slaves