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...things have changed considerably--they're worse! Let us for example consider Harvard. Here we have one of the most prestigious collection of invisible minds north of Yale's Afro-American Cultural Center. Yet this obvious fact conceals a deeper truth. Unlike the principal protagonist of Ellison's novel Invisible Man, their invisibility is not due primarily to the refusal of others to see them. The reality is more tragic. They refuse to see themselves! Instead, many take refuge in the rhetoric of "racism at Harvard" as though matriculation at such heavenly institutions as Howard University or the University...
...this breeds a shadow society where traditional values are scarce and violence is promiscuous. For young black men, violence can become a warped form of self-assertion, a kind of "I kill, therefore I am." Snuffing out another life perversely affirms their own. Almost 40 years ago, Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man about violence as a way for black men to assert their existence to themselves: "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish...
...original series' producers argue that the AIM program is a shallow and polemical response to an exhaustively researched work of scholarship. "If PBS feels that a reply to this series is appropriate, why does AIM get a monopoly?" asks Executive Producer Richard Ellison. "It's a precedent that I consider dangerous in and of itself, and also because it is part of a general atmosphere of pressure on the media from the right...
...prep school. Her best friend, a white girl, asks her: "Don't you think it's rather romantic to be a Negro?...My father says Negroes are the tragic figures of America. Isn't it exciting to be a tragic figure? It's a kind of destiny!" In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, 30 years earlier, a white philanthropist said almost the same thing...
...next work, "Divining", had its Boston premiere Wednesday night. Judith Jamison, a former Ailey dancer, choreographed this magnetic piece to music by Kimati Dimizulu and Monti Ellison. The music alternated between loud, whisting melodies and constant drum rhythms. The starkness of the beating drum focused all attention on the dancer's movements. In contrast to the first piece. Divining" was a study of movement that is nonetheless just as captivating...