Ralph Ellisons classic novel gives voice to the frustration of African Americans in the precivil 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 donors underlying ideology.
Philanthropic Exchange in Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man
By Cecil E. Bohanon, Michelle Albert Vachris
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