Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

Abstract

Part 1 The scaffolding of a nation - the black belt and beyond: Atlanta exposition address, Booker T. Washington of our spiritual strivings, W.E.B. Du Bois of Mr Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois founder's day address at Tuskegee, 1931, Anson Phelps Stokes cowards from the colleges, Langston Hughes social equality, Gunnar Myrdal Brown vs Board of Education - the effects of segregation, Supreme Court Brief the shadow of the plantation, Charles S. Johnson tore up and a-movin', Bernice Kelly Harris an analysis of negro patriotism, William N. Colson the Black migration, W.T. Andrews million Black voices, Richard Wright. Part 2 A heap of signifying - vernacular culture: (what did I do to be so) Black and blue, Andy Razaf run, nigger, run, African American folk song Jack the rabbit! Jack the bear!, African American folk song the devil's son-in-law, Peetie Wheatstraw many thousands gone, African American spiritual why Mr Dog runs Brer Rabbit, Emma Backus Brer Rabbit and the goobers, Carl Carmer de sweet pertater man, street market song sweet-the-monkey, Leo Gurley hip language, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe. Part 3 The within a city - Harlem, USA: portrait of Harlem, Federal Writers' Project the new negro, Alain Locke Blacks in the labour movement, Sterling Spero and Abram L. Harris race catechism, Cyril V. Briggs Africa for the Africans, Marcus Garvey speech delivered at Liberty Hall NYC during Second International Convention of Negroes, August, 1921, Marcus Garvey the road to Negro liberation, Harry Haywood marxism and the American Negro, Will Herberg marxism and the woman question, Avram Landy Negro Americans, what now?, James Welson Johnson Harlem runs wild, Claude McKay the Harlem riot of 1943, A. Clayton Powell Sr the Negro and the Second World War, Ralph Ellison Harlem is nowhere, Ralph Ellison.