What's going on with Invisible Man?

For the past week, out class has been holding seminars for various sections of the novel the Invisible Man. However, unlike most times where these seminars are enlightening and often help me reach some aha! moment in the text, I am left by the end of them wanting more.... whether discussing Lucius Brockway's encounter with the narrator or the riots that close the novel, discussions seem to be trapped in a cyclical bout of racism or just smiply black and white. This an be frustrating because eliminating the black versus white lens opens up the book to so much more meaning that I believe Ellison intended. Maybe I am just too critical. I myself could offer even more to the conversations but i do feel like our class discussion emphasize too much surface level commentary and not enough genuine analysis that comes with really reading a book. I understadn second semester senior syndrome which I myself have become infected with but i really want our class to become more interested (and maybe live up to second period haha). On a side note, out seminar today bothere dme in particular because I feel certain people were being ganged up on  during seminar which takes more away from our class discussion as a whole rather than make themselves seem more intelligent. The atmosphere created by the students in out classroom kind of makes it difficult for me to contribute all of the time for fear of being "judged". Not implicating all students in class but I do feel like a few do not always contribute to the open and nonjudemntal atmosphere that an ap lit open discussion is supposed to yield. I digress, but I think my point has been made. I know that each and eveyr person in the class in intelligent and interested in literature (hopefully at this point) so I just wish that people's intelligence reflected in their efforts in the class. Today I wanted so badly to talk about how Clifton's exit from the brotherhood was not just white people casting off blacks again but how he figuratively falls from a idea of "grace" so that he can be free. And also when the narrator is dreaming at the end and he hears Barbee and brother jack ask him how does it feel to be free and the narrator responds that it is PAINFUL and EMPTY.