id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_xpfg27kk6rgvving5yjsxa4gzm Sterling Lecater Bland Being Ralph Ellison: Remaking the Black Public Intellectual in the Age of Civil Rights 2015.0 12 .pdf application/pdf 6105 284 51 52 Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. resent, to many, a writer whose ideas affirmed the possibilities of black American intellectualism. Invisible Man was a breakthrough novel that synthesized mid-twentiethcentury African American racial consciousness with America's broader cultural While scholars have examined Ralph Ellison from a variety of literary, cultural, and political perspectives that mine the components of his formative years Board of Education and the civil rights movement eventually justified the ideas that Ellison had presented in his novel and gave him The relationship between African Americans and the racialized political ideologies that involved black people relative to the nation were If there is a recurring political theme in Ellison's recalibration of his audience's response to his ideas between the publication of Invisible Man and the influence on American literature, on the national conversation about race and its social and political implications, and on the subsequent trajectory of Ellison's intellectual and artistic work for the ./cache/work_xpfg27kk6rgvving5yjsxa4gzm.pdf ./txt/work_xpfg27kk6rgvving5yjsxa4gzm.txt