{ } (Invisibility)

To answer the question directly, yes, anyone can be invisible regardless of race. Invisibility within the context of the book refers to race, but in a wider context, invisibility refers to those viewed as inferior. Like the "Invisible Children" (child soldiers), whom the world, for the most part, overlook. Anyone considered so low down that they're not even worth noticing. Not just races, anyone, of any race, who is deemed worthless. These people normally get lost in whatever majority they "should" be a part of.

It reminds me of the part in Invisible Man when the black drop disappear into the white mass of paint. It symbolized, to my thinking, the disappearance of black identity into white society. In the case of Invisible Man, this is a very specific occurrence because it refers to black people, but it could be applied to other cases of invisibility. It is very easy to lose an identity when you are under great pressure to conform to the identity of the majority. In the case of Dr. Bledsoe, he perfectly represents the tiny black drop consumed by the white. He has lost most of his black identity in favor of a more popular white persona. In class today, we discussed whether or not he had shifted his personality, and I don't believe his white identity was just a front, I think it consumed him.