He was a black man trying to buy a house in a predominately white neighborhood. ... I used to hear some of my black friends talk about "how hard it is to be a black man in America." ... The white person is instantly approved when he is asked if he makes more than $18,000 a year, he says no, but when the black person is asked the same question, he says that he makes $17,000 a year and is denied because "he could get a raise and go over the limit," (Invisible). ... Minorities are sometimes discriminated against by potential employers and landlords because of where they live (Invisible). ... ...

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We can also read Ralph Ellison's (Invisible Man, 1952) work. ... The phase of transition from Africa to America took place on the slave ship which had two important functions: the first was the "transmutation", which meant that the transportation of the bodies of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean transformed them into slaves and created a new kind of man: the African American. ...

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