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3.1 Racial discrimination
Invisible man was written by Ralph Ellison who was an American black writer. In this book he tried to show the society discrimination and racial repression. Du Bois ever pointed out "racial discrimination and racial repression had divided American society into two isolated parts---white man society and black man society". [4] In American, black man could only live in black ghettos. The black were forbidden from staying with the white American. If a black man broke the rule, he would be immediately and cruelly killed by the white people.
Because of the existing of society discrimination, the Afro-American just lived in the black ghettos with poor life and poor Education for their children. Every Afro-American was treated particularly from the time he was born. Because of his skin being black, he had no equality with the white man. This was not equal, but no one had the ability to change it. Afro-American stayed in American with two identities. They were American, but in fact they were second class citizens. This society condition had made the Afro-American lack self-confidence and loss their dignity. They were belonging to the weak union in politics, economy and culture, so they needed to obey the white American society. In American, the white man could get cheap labor from the black man. In this aspect they could accept the black. But they hated to contact with the black man just because of their ugly skin. In the eyes of the white man, they could not see the value and the ideology of the black people. They could not hear the voice of the black man. For the American white person, the black were absolutely necessary, but also invisible.
Many black American had tried their best to revolt and to improve their society state, but they were rejected and opposed in every filed by the white American, that was because the American society had been a white-dominated one since its formation. In their mind, the white American were the lord of them, they had to serve white man without any hesitation. They should to please the white man even though they did not want to do so. In the American society, the color of the skin would judge your society position and the right you would have in the world. Living in this society, the black could not be themselves. The black skin brought them a hideous society. They could not see through the white American's nature of racism and they usually unconsciously deceived by the white man.
Invisible man was a story of a short period life experience of a black youth. The novel did reflect the black and white issue in American society. In this book the hero was invisible to the society. He was a black man with no name and no identity. Maybe he was a slave in this American society. He was not only invisible to the white man but also invisible to the whole American people. His living life was miserable. He had tried his best to be an excellent person and to get respect from the white man, but the society beated him back. He did not really know what caused the result, and he suspected his black family was the root that made him out of the white society. In a word, the root cause of the hero's invisibility was racial discrimination. Under this white man dominated society, black man has no right and no freedom, what they could do was just obeying the rule of the society.
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