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This paper examines the theme of race in Invisible Man which is constructed and transformed sociohistorically through competing political projects and through the necessary and ineluctable link between the structural and cultural dimensions of race in the U. S. in Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s “Racial Formation” theory. The main character of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, who is black but eloquent, has been analyzed according to four steps suggested by the two critics in their racial formation theory, whose racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. The racial project superintended by white people is a broad, inescapable web catching and moving black people in the U. S. In this project, “I” ends up being exploited and excluded from mainstream society, even though he has a superior ability in terms of a man’s worth or value. (Sung Kyun Kwan University)