Ralph Ellison
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Sep 17, 2026
Mark GottliebGUEST
There's so much good stuff out there.
Mark GottliebGUEST
I've always been a fan of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.
Mark GottliebGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Mark GottliebGUEST
There's Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Marisa FrancoGUEST
She had disabilities in her life, and she gained about 80 pounds.
Marisa FrancoGUEST
And so all day she's thinking about, "Does my body look weird as I sit up? How do I look in the mirror? How do these outfits look on me? Does my body look okay? Should I exercise? Am I less than because I can't exercise today?" Right? It's almost like she's under the microscope to herself, right? And so I also quote Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 'cause he talks about eating watermelon around white people and being like, "What are these white people gonna think about me eating watermelon?" And, like, that's how stigma manifests.
Marisa FrancoGUEST
I thought of it as just, like, feeling negatively about yourself, but it's actually turning yourself into an object internally, where I'm constantly thinking about myself as someone ...
Marisa FrancoGUEST
It's like double consciousness too.
Elia AgudoHOST
Of course, when they talk about not seeing, not seeing niggas, my brain goes, invisible man.
Darrell HughsonHOST
Invisible man, Ralph Ellison.
Elia AgudoHOST
yes even like not to get too sidetracked but I thought the outcast the outcast was a nice touch like I just thought it was named outcast like the group of course and then like finding out how that tied into oh him actually growing up as an outcast via his starting from like from the point of he's the baby like he's socialized to be like you're different you're going to be different and because of that like you can't experience like you can't have like a normal childhood you can't like
Darrell HughsonHOST
you can't go out and develop your music tastes
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Darrell HughsonHOST
Just my feelings towards it.
Darrell HughsonHOST
It might change, considering we're only halfway done.
Darrell HughsonHOST
But, like, I think the most interesting parts of... for me of lanterns are the thematic conversations of race but there's nothing in it that hasn't already been told better i think if you re i think if you really liked episode three of lanterns go back and read invisible man read read the ralph ellison i do like invisible man I think it's a classic for a reason.
Darrell HughsonHOST
I think it's a good companion piece.
Resmaa MenakemGUEST
It starts at 7 o'clock at the Capri Theater.
Resmaa MenakemGUEST
And what we've done is we've taken the idea of invisibility from a sci-fi place and then married it with the idea of Ralph Ellison's invisibility.
Resmaa MenakemGUEST
So how people are rendered invisible in a structure like this.
Resmaa MenakemGUEST
Yeah.
Resmaa MenakemGUEST
It starts at 7 o'clock at the Capri Theater.
Resmaa MenakemGUEST
And what we've done is we've taken the idea of invisibility from a sci-fi place and then married it with the idea of Ralph Ellison's invisibility.
Resmaa MenakemGUEST
So how people are rendered invisible in a structure like this.
Resmaa MenakemGUEST
Yeah.
Randy BoyagodaGUEST
Uh, and I decided no, I'm gonna teach three 700-page novels.
Randy BoyagodaGUEST
I'm teaching Middlemarch by George Eliot, I'm teaching Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, and I'm teaching The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai.
Randy BoyagodaGUEST
And what I told the students, David, 80 students on the first day, was that the world is telling you you don't want to do this.
Randy BoyagodaGUEST
The world is telling you you can't do this.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
Back to Chicago.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
Um, people on this show have heard me talk about Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, another Chicago guy.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
Um, I put it on here for a couple reasons.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
One, I think it is, my personal opinion, it's the best American novel of the 20th century, so by definition, an eligible candidate to be talked about here.
Francis FukuyamaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So that's just an example.
Francis FukuyamaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But I think, you know, civil rights, Ralph Ellison wrote a novel back in the 1950s about, you know, the experience of African-Americans that had moved from the South to the North.
Francis FukuyamaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You didn't have... official legally sanctioned segregation, what you had was the invisibility.
Francis FukuyamaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's where the invisible man in the title comes from, that white people in the North simply didn't see a black person as a fellow human being.
Todd BreyfogleGUEST
What does that mean? In the 1950s, we were reading Marx while the McCarthy trials were going on.
Todd BreyfogleGUEST
In the 1960s, Thurgood Marshall was here, Ralph Ellison was here.
Todd BreyfogleGUEST
There was a much greater appreciation and intentionality about including not just different business sectors and labor sectors, but the whole of the civil rights movement.
Todd BreyfogleGUEST
By the 1970s, women are much more involved, partly because they have more seniority in companies.
Howard LamsonHOST
You see what I'm
Shiva AyyaduraiGUEST
saying? So it's like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, okay? So this is a great fear they have because I'll tell you this, they have the data.
Shiva AyyaduraiGUEST
They're looking at it.
Shiva AyyaduraiGUEST
They know that random people are going to vote for us.
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