The Baraka play published with Dutchman is called The Slave. It is a fable loosely based on Baraka's former marriage to a white woman that exposes the latent racism of liberal whites. HIS 1969 play Slave Ship moves away from the traditional American dramatic structure to the pageantry of African drama. It portrays the total "sense" experience of coming to America on a slave ship.
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man explores the emptiness of the assimilationist dream. The novel's protagonist discovers not only that his black skin makes him an invisible member of American society but that black leaders and educators actually encourage him to deny his heritage and make himself even more invisible.
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