id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
concept-277	none	Not for Sale: Liberation and Commodified Identity in Ellison's Invisible Man	2006	12	.pdf	application/pdf	6890	322	60	Finding such cues as clothing and speech no longer reliable as indicators of racial differences, white identity experienced a major crisis. This “contradiction between market incentives and the desire to encode white racial supremacy” ensured that the battle for white supremacy would not end on train cars (133): “The problem for the white southern elite ... was how to reconstruct a powerful and collective definition of whiteness within this new semi- public commercial sphere, which depended ... for its profitability upon both white and black buyers” (137).	cache/concept-277.pdf	txt/concept-277.txt