a masterful move on Ellison’s part, because what he wants to show is the inhumanity of anonymity. When your name is never called—when you are never addressed by that name—you are being told you don’t really matter. In far too many of our Christian colleges, universities, and seminaries, people of color are just like Ralph Ellison’s protagonist: nameless. When people of color are left off the required reading lists of the syllabi, not referred to in class discussions, not pursued for significant faculty