Yet in the end, the Invisible Man, whether author, thinker, or protagonist, was not a photographer. He wrote. What he sought was not so much to be seen but rather heard. The problem of African Americans and most systemically oppressed and degraded people, particularly where asymmetrical power relations abound, where they are ensconced in sedimented historical forms, encoded in mores and modes of civility, buried in the presumption of prerogative and access is limited, barred, monitored, closely screened, subject to persistent surveillance and meticulously vetted—the issue is not so much
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