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By Laura Nathan - May 28, 2002

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In his essay “What America Would Be Like Without Blacks,â€? Ralph Ellison argues that “The nation could not survive being deprived of their [the Negro’s] presence because, by the irony implicit in the dynamics of American democracy, they symbolize both its most stringent testing and the possibility of its greatest human…

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