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...black men have been invisible in America, as Ralph Ellison argued, black women have been inaudible. Doubly oppressed by racism and sexism, they have often gone unheard as male civil rights leaders did the talking for their race and white feminists did the talking for their sex. In recent years a growing chorus of black female writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker has begun to direct a passionate blast against male chauvinists on both sides of the color line. But there has seldom been an indictment of the self-absorption and self-delusion of the corporate male, both white...
...Council on Sunday night, which were the subject of an article in Monday's Crimson. General Colin Powell is apparently not the first African-American to be invited as Harvard's principal Commencement speaker. During the past 25 years, the speakers have included Barbara Jordan in 1977 and Ralph Ellison in 1974. Neil L. Rudenstine
Cabranes-Grant attempts to read the play as a meditation on colonialism and social oppression. He prefaces the show with an excerpt from Ellison's Invisible Man, and replaces the masque in the middle with Cervantes' The Magic Theatre. As Cabranes-Grant notes in the program, "Both texts share with The Tempest a particular interest in the contrasts between the invisible and the visible, the shifting boundaries between illusion and reality." But he allows this interesting dramatic analogy to dissipate into meaninglessness by failing to follow it through...
This extravaganza comes courtesy of the highest House dues on campus, and very much in the tradition of old Master Heimert's cocktail parties, symbols of the extravagance, elegance and downright elitism that have marked Eliot as long as anyone can remember. Ah, those were the days. --Brian D. Ellison...
...recognition in the White Media that these kind of Black people exist as a group and that there is a group dynamic which generation after generation produces such a bloc of strivers. In that sense, they are as "invisible" as the protagonist in Ralph Ellison's classic novel, The Invisible...