Discussion

1.    Read Dutchman alongside the “Battle Royale” scene in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952). Discuss how the sexualized, interracial relationship between white women and African American male identity evolves between the two works.

2. Read “If You Saw a Negro Lady” alongside Sonia Sanchez’s “Queens of the Universe” in A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman (1974). Compare how both women describe African American women 

Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic

Introduction pgs. 609-612

Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) pgs. 512-585