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In this existentialist novel, the anonymous narrator is a black young man who has been molded into naive humanism. He believes that each individual: black, white or yellow holds his/her place in the societal shackles of his/her country for that little, he/she makes proof of attendance, hard work and a certain deference to the White Man.
From here, it is soon realized that the narrator is the Invisible Man: the Black Man, supposedly free from slavery eighty years earlier by the American settler. However, the reality is different, complex and camouflaged. Insidious, segregation is still very present, well organized, hierarchically excessive, even in the northern regions, historically more progressive. In reality, racism is more devious than ever,
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