The Influence Of Racism In The Invisible Man

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As a Consequence of a dominant society racial and prejudicial ideology of blackness generates a stereotypical limit of black identity. Without knowing their identity, the dominant society’s racial prejudice causes them to see black individuals only as what they want to see them. The dominant society’s ideology proves too simplistic to explain something as sophisticated as human identity. Society’s Dominant organizations try to portray their stereotypical way of how black individuals should live in a society dominated by white individuals . The dominant races in society influence the way society treats the minor race by injection the racist ideas into how that race should act according to the rules of society. These racial ideologies cause the …show more content…

Black individuals are a victim of society’s racial prejudice, which cause many black individuals to lose their identity and give into the racial stereotype. Because of the values and expectation imposed on black individual limits their complexity as a human and forces them to live an in authentic life. In the novel The Invisible Man, a paint factory, Liberty Paints plant, serves as a direct metaphor for racism towards black individuals within the novel. The factory takes pride in racial belief that white is better than black, they demonstrate this by basing their company on the success of their Optical White Paint. The creator of the paint, Lucius Brockway an old black man, dedicates his life to overlook the creation of the Optical White Paint for the company. Brockway boasted about his accomplishment of the white paint to the Narrator, who has no name, after the narrator asked about the other colors of paint, Brockway replied with, “ Cause we started stressing it from the first. We make the best white paint in the world, I don’t give a damn what nobody says. Our …show more content…

With this the paint factory emerges as a symbol of racial prejudice in novel. The Liberty Paints Plant proves the larger notion of the racism within society,

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