Cultural context of Invisible man: Brown v. Board of Education -- Ralph Ellison on protest in Invisible man -- Larry Neal on Ellison's place in the art versus politics conflict -- Kerry McSweeney on influences on Invisible man -- Alan Nadel on Invisible man and Huck and Jim -- Walter Slatoff on staying human and sane in Invisible man -- Eric J. Sundquist on Ralph Ellison, Jazz, and Louis Armstrong -- John F. Callahan on the struggle for eloquence -- Lawrence Jackson on the concept of invisibility -- Shelly Eversley on female invisibility in the novel -- Ross Posnock compares the political views of Ralph Ellison and Hannah Arendt -- Anne Anlin Cheng on ambiguity in racial encounters -- Michael Anderson on Ellison's failed genius.