Ralph Ellison’s classic novel gives voice to the frustration of African Americans in the pre–civil rights era. It is also a useful study in the ways in which philanthropy can go awry when it is based on falsehoods and denies dignity to its intended beneficiaries in order to serve the donor’s underlying ideology.
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