The collected essays of Ralph Ellison

Preface by Saul Bellow

Editor's note

Introduction by John F. Callahan

Postcript to the introduction by John F. Callahan

February

A congress Jim Crow didn't attend

Flamenco

"Tell it like it is, baby"

And I have no other identity

Shadow and act : Introduction ; I. The seer and the seen ; II. Sound and the mainstream ; III. The shadow and the act ; Working notes for Invisible Man ; A special message to subscribers ; Testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Harlem and Urban America ; Indivisible man ; James Armistead Lafayette ; Commencement address at the College of William and Mary ; Address to the Harvard College Alumni, class of 1949 ; Haverford statement ; Homage to William L. Dawson ; Alain Locke ; Roscoe Dunee and the American language ; The discipline of American humor ; Presentation to Bernard Malamud of the Gold Medal for Fiction ; Introduction to the thirtieth-anniversary edition of Invisible Man

Going to the Territory : "A completion of personality": a talk with Ralph Ellison ; On being the target of discrimination ; Bearden ; Notes for class day talk at Columbia University ; Foreword to The Beer Can by the Highway ; Address at the Whiting Foundation.