About this volume / Robert C. Evans -- On Invisible Man: blue notes, from segregation to Black Lives Matter / Patrice Rankine -- Biography of Ralph Ellison / Kelley Jeans. Critical contexts : Efforts to ban Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Phill Johnson -- About Invisible Man: critical responses from the fifties through the sixties / Robert C. Evans -- Invisible Man: sensation and making sense / Nicolas Tredell -- Biblical riffs in and on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Steven D. Ealy. Critical readings : Ralph Ellison: a biography / Arnold Rampersad -- Invisible Man: critical responses from the seventies through the early twenty-first century / Robert C. Evans -- Ralph Ellison on the craft of good writing / Antonio Byrd -- Ralph Ellison on Invisible Man: early interviews / Robert C. Evans -- Invisible Man: anger, action, and art / Nicolas Tredell -- Race and individualism in Ralph Ellison's writings / Lucas E. Morel -- The political implications of Ralph Ellison's writings / Lucas E. Morel -- Invisible Man and the mysteries of Reconstruction / Grant Shreve -- Invisible Man the play: the Oren Jacoby stage adaptation / Bryan Warren -- Ralph Ellison: An American Journey: a survey of reviews (and a guide to other films) / Bryan Warren -- On Invisible Man: past, present, and present-past / Michael Germana. Resources : Appendix: early materials on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Chronology -- Works by Ralph Ellison -- Bibliography -- About the editor -- Contributors -- Index.