e changes To do this he must now leave his underground home and return to the outside world. During the narrators' journey, he encounters many incidents of sexual stereotypes. Three forms of these stereotypes are used to gain power. First, racial sexual stereotypes are used by white men to have power over black men. Then social sexual stereotypes are used to keep black men in a lower class, or position, than white men. Lastly, a white woman, to gain sexual power over a black man, uses gender sexual stereotypes. The white characters of Invisible Man create power over the black characters by using various sexual stereotypes and taboos. In one of the earliest scenes of Invisible Man, the narrator and other young black males participate in a Battle Royal as entertainment for a group of important white males. However, before the Battle Royal, the fighters are forced to watch a naked blond women danced for all
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