Aaron, Hank
Abdul, Paula
Abuse, physical
allegation of King’s
child abuse
Kobe Bryant’s alleged sexual abuse
Academic life
Addiction to tabloids, author’s
Adler, Margot
Adolescence. See Childhood and adolescence
Adultery
Advertising industry
marketing Michael Jordan
sports figures
use of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Aeolian Hall concert
Aesthetic alienation of hip-hop culture
Affirmative action
as reverse racism
college admissions policy
neoconservative black stance on
Aframnesia
African culture: origins of jazz
African Origin of Biological Psychiatry (King)
Afrocentricity (Asante)
Aging
Air Jordan
Alexander, Margaret Walker
Ali, Muhammad
Ali, Shahrazad
Allen, Theodore
American Civil War
American Revolution
Anger
at humiliating behavior of whites
white male anger
Anson, Robert Sam
Antimiscegenation laws
Arendt, Hannah
Armstrong, Louis
Armstrong, Vanessa Bell
Art, See also Music
Asante, Molefi Kete
ASCAP
Asian Americans
Assassination
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Assimilation theory
Athletes
Kobe Bryant
Michael Jordan
O.J. Simpson
virtue transcending sports
See also Sports
Atwater, Lee
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Awards
Bacharach, Burt
Bad (video)
Bailey, Harold
Baker, Anita
Bakke case
Baldwin, James
Bambaataa, Afrika
Baraka, Amiri
Baseball
Basketball
Bassett, Angela
Baxter, Michael
Bebop
Behar, Joy
Beiderbecke, Bix
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray)
Benjamin, Playthell
Bennett, Lerone
Bennett, William
Bernal, Martin
Berry, Halle
Best Intentions (Anson)
Betweener generation
Bing, Leon
Biological determinism
Biracialism
Black, Cordell
Black art controversy
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Bernal)
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Black History Month
The Blackman s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman (Ali)
Black Reconstruction (Du Bois)
Blige, Mary J.
Bloom, Harold
Blues music
Body, human
black masculinity
body-centered culture
commodification of Michael Jordan
fashionable nature of blacks
Boggs, James
Bok, Derek
Boozer, Jack
Bourgie blacks
Boxing
Boyz N the Hood (1991)
Bradley, Michael
Bray, Rosemary
Breitman, George
Bricolage
Brightman, Edgar
Brokaw, Tom
Brotherhood
Brown, James
Brown, Jamie
Brown, Jim
Brown, Robert McAfee
Brown University
Bruce, Tammy
Bryant, Kobe
Burdette, Otis
Burns, Khephra
Bush, George W.
Buttrick, George
By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm X)
Caesar, Shirley
Calloway, Vanessa Bell
Capitalism
Carey, Mariah
Caribbean music
Carnival
Carson, Clayborne
Carson-Newman College
Carter, Jimmy
Carter, Maria Agui
Casanova complex
Catholic Church scandal
Censorship of gangsta rap
Character, evolution of
Charles, Ray
Chennault, Ronald E.
Chicago, Illinois
Childhood and adolescence
author’s upbringing
discipline versus abuse
of Malcolm X
Christianity. See Religion
Church-state relations
Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology (Diop)
Civil religion
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Civil rights movement
Clarke, John Henrik
Class. See Socioeconomic status
Cleage, Albert
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, George
Cochran, Johnnie
Cockrel, Kenneth
Cohen, Carl
Cohen, William
College admissions
Collier, James Lincoln
Collins, Lisa
Colonialism
Colors (1988)
Coltrane, John
Coming of age. See Childhood and adolescence
Common
Community: Boyz N the Hood
Cone, James
Congo Square, New Orleans
Congreve, William
Constitution, U.S.
Consumerism: consumption of Michael Jordan
Cooke, Sam
Cooley High (Schultz)
Cowlings, A.C.
Cox, Oliver
Crack cocaine
Cranbrook School
Cray, Robert
Creole people
Cress-Welsing, Frances
Crime
evolution of drug and gang culture in the ghetto
portrayed in film
See also Homicide; Violence
Cross, Ted
Crouch, Andrae
Crouch, Stanley
Cuba
Cultural adaptation
Cultural icon, MichaelJordan as
Cultural pluralism
Cultural Studies journal
Culture, black
convergence of rhetorical universes
film criticism
Tupac Shakur as symbol of
white musicians’ appropriation of
See also Film; Hip-hop
Curry, George
D’Angelo
Daniels, David
Darden, Christopher
Dash, Julie
David, Hal
Davis, Angela
Davis, Mike
Davis, Miles
Death
depressingly large numbers of black men
firearms’ contribution to
transcending
See also Homicide
The Death and Life of Malcolm X (Goldman)
Declaration of Independence
Dee, Big Tray
Deification of Accidence
Demme, Jonathan
Detroit, Michigan
symbols of home
women vocalists
Dialectical Society
Dickerson, Ernest
Dill, Augustus
DiMaggio, Joe
Dinkins, David
Diop, Cheikh Anta
Disco culture
Dissent magazine
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (Schlesinger)
Divorce: grim statistics for black women
Dixieland music
DJ Jazzy Jeff
DJ Kool Herc
Dogg, Snoop Doggy
Dole, Bob
Domestic violence
Domination
many faces of white domination
white-black domination
whiteness as
Dorsey, Thomas A.
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Douglas, Ann
Douglass, Frederick
Douglass, Mary
Dr. Dre
Drug trafficking
Drumming
Du Bois, W.E.B.
as face of American identity
criticism of
grim prophecy of
politics of nostalgia
psychic wages of whiteness
racial discourse
racism in academia
schism with Washington
spurning jazz
Duke, George
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Dyson, Brenda
Dyson, Mike
Dyson, Terrie
Dyson-Bey, Everett
Earning gap
Easy Rider (1969)
Ebert, Roger
Ebony magazine
Economies of whiteness
Ecstasy, religious
Edifying deception
Education
affirmative action and university admissions
as criterion for black women choosing black men
author’s education and intellectual development
author’s high standards in literature and thinking
low levels of achievement of black men
Martin Luther King, Jr.
racism on college campuses
the power of knowledge
versus prison for black men
Egyptian culture
Einstein, Albert
“Elegy” (Gray
Eliot, T.S.
Ellington, Duke
Ellis, Aunjanue
Ellison, Ralph
black masculinity
modernism and
multicultural applicability of his work
on OJ. Simpson
on whiteness
Emancipation through music
Emerge magazine
Emerging culture theory
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches by Malcolm X (Karim, ed.)
Erudition
Eventful versus event-making persons
Family
Boyz N the Hood
cultural adaptation during urban migration
dependence on man’s fate
Everett Dyson-Bey’s imprisonment
Moynihan’s study
Family values
Fantasy, sexual
Farley, Jonathan
Farrakhan, Louis
Fascism
Fatherhood: Boyz Nthe Hood
Feminism
Film and film criticism
Boyz N the Hood
gangster films
hip-hop culture
Malcolm X
O.J. Simpson’s appearance in
purpose of film criticism
Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing
Firearms
First Amendment
Fish, Stanley
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Florio-Bunten, Francine
Foreman, George
Foucault, Michel
Founding Fathers
Franklin, Aretha
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin, C.L.
Frazier, E. Franklin
Freedom (Patterson)
The Fresh Prince
Fuhrman, Mark
Funk music
Gammage, Jonny
Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma)
Gangs
Gangsta rap
Gangster films
Garrow, David
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Gay and lesbian issues. See Homosexuality
Gaye, Marvin
Gender relations
Boyz N the Hood
Malcolm X
sexism in blues
sexism in rap
See also Women
Generation gaps
Genovese, Eugene
G-funk
Ghettocentricity
Ghetto life
black identity and the black home
Boyz N the Hood
shaping the lives of black males
Straight Out of Brooklyn
Giddins, Gary
Gifford, Kathie Lee
Gilroy, Paul
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin)
Giroux, Henry
Gitlin, Todd
Goldman, Peter
Goodman, Benny
Gore, Tipper
Gospel music
Graff, Gerald
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
Grant, Amy
Grant, Madison
Gravity, Jordan’s defying
Gray, Thomas
Gregory, Dick
Griffith, Michael
Grossberg, Lawrence
The Growing Edge (Thurman)
Gumbo ya-ya of black identity
Gun culture, 437-438
Hall, Arsenio
Hall, Stuart
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Hanigan, James
Harlem Renaissance
Harris, Leslie
The Harvard Classics
Harvard University
Hathaway, Donny
Hauerwas, Stanley
Hawkins, Edwin
Hawkins, Tramaine
Hawkins, Walter
Hawkins, Yusuf
Hazing
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
Helms-Burton Act
Henderson, Fletcher
Hero celebration
athletes
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Herrnstein, Richard
Herskovits, Melville
Hill, Anita
Hill, Lauryn
Hine, Darlene Clark
Hip-hop
aesthetic alienation of
as alternative to crack culture
as expression of black male rebellion
as face of American identity
as response to crisis of black masculinity
as setting for film
authenticity of
author’s support of
complexity and diversity of
criticisms of
gangsta rap
jazz and
juvenocracy and the culture of violence
on black men in prison
origins and development of
racial justice and the imprisonment of rappers
sexism and sexuality of
thug life
Tupac Shakur’s contribution to
use of “nigger
Hobbes, Thomas
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Holmes, Urban T.
Home, symbolic
Homicide
homicide rate of black men
imprisonment of Everett Dyson-Bey
of prominent black men
statistics
Homoeroticism
Homophobia
Homosexuality
alleged homosexuality of Malcolm X
black identity and disenfranchisement
bourgie blacks and gay self-identity
Dennis Rodman as masculine/feminine symbol
eroticization of white supremacy
homophobia of the religious community
nomenclature of
religion and
sacred scriptures as guide to homosexual relationships
sexual healing through the Bible
theology of homoeroticism
Hook, Sidney
hooks, bell
Hopper, Dennis
Horton, Willie
House Party (Hudlin and Hudlin)
Houston, Cissy
Houston, Whitney
Howard Beach
Hudlin, Reginald and Warrington
Hughes, Langston
Hume, David
Humility
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hybrid women
Hypervisibility of black youth
Ice Cube
The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man’s Racism, Sexism, and Aggression (Bradley)
Ice-T
Identity, black
black modernists
essence of black culture
home and the architecture of identity
importance of Congo Square to
in jazz
Lee’s portrayal in film
legislation of black music
Michael Jackson
MichaelJordan
portrayed in Michael Jackson’s videos
privacy and identity in urban settings
rap as social commentary on
renewing the debate over defining
self-identification
sexual identity and
with white supremacist overlay
Identity, self
Identity, white. See Whiteness
Identity politics
Ignatiev, Noel
I May Not Get There with You (Dyson)
Immigrants, European
Improvisational intentionality
Improvisational music
Income gap
Institutional expression of whiteness
Intellectuals
author’s intellectual development
hip-hop and jazz
reasons for becoming
Reed’s antipathy towards
Internet: visions of Tupac Shakur
Interracial sex
Invisible Man (Ellison)
Irigaray, Luce
The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (Cress- Welsing)
Islam
Italians, as denigrators of blacks
Jackson, Jesse
intellectualism and education
preaching style
presidential campaign
Vanessa Bell Armstrong and
Jackson, J.H.
Jackson, Mahalia
Jackson, Michael
James, C.L.R.
James, Mrs.
Jameson, Fredric
Jazz
Jazz Age
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffries, Leonard
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jews as denigrators of blacks
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnson, Lyndon
Jones, Ingrid Saunders
Jones, Paula
Jones, Quincy
Jones, Star
Jones, William Augustus
Jordan, Michael
Juice (1992)
Justice Talking (radio program)
Juvenocracy
Kallen, Horace
Karim, Benjamin
Keith, Damon
Kelley, Robin D.G.
Kennedy, Robert
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Anson’s march with
as public moralist
assassination of
black nihilism
civic piety and black Christianity
Clinton’s invoking of
cultural manipulation of hero celebration
ethics and politics of hero celebration
inadequacy of the vision
irony of current racism
modifying the voice and persona of
moral failings of
moral vision of
need for addressing present forms of discrimination
preaching style
sacrifices of
Spike Lee’s use of King in films
whites understanding racism
King, Richard
King, Rodney
Kirkpatrick, Douglas
Kitchen as metaphor for black exile
Knickerbockers, New York
Knight, Carolyn
Knowledge, the power of
Knoxville College
Kohl, Herbert
Kool Moe Dee
Korean Americans
Kristeva, Julia
KRS-One
Ku Klux Klan
Labor
Ladies Home Journal magazine
LaGrone, Kheven
Langer, Gary
Language
identity politics and
intellectual development
music as language
nomenclature of homosexuality
of identity
use of “nigger
The Last Year of Malcolm X (Breitman)
Latino-Americans
Learning Tree (Parks)
Lee, Spike
Lewis, David Levering
Life expectancy
Lindsay, Calvin A., Jr.
Lischer, Richard
Literacy
Gardner Taylor’s heritage
slaveowners’ control of communication
the power of knowledge
Little Richard
Locke, John
Lomax, Louis
Long, Charles
Lott, Eric
Louis, Joe
MacIntyre, Alisdair
Madison, James
Maguire, Liz
Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X (Dyson)
Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America (Perry)
Malcolm X
a psychobiography
as public moralist
as revolutionary
film depiction of
hero worship of
influence on black masculinity
“so-called Negro revolution
Malcolm X (1992)
Malcolm X: The Man and His Times (Clarke)
Malcolm X Speaks
Male bonding
Mandela, Nelson
Mandela, Winnie
Man in a Polyester Suit (Mapplethorpe)
“Man in the Mirror” (Jackson
Mapplethorp, Robert
March on Washington
Marriage: statistics for black women
Marsalis, Wynton
Martin and Malcolm and America (Cone)
Martin Luther King Plagiarism Story (Pappas),
Marty, Martin
Masculinity
black masculinity as text of identity
Boyz N the Hood
exploration in film
Massey, James Earl
Material culture
Matthews, Don
Mayfield, Curtis
McCall, Nathan
McVeigh, Timothy
Meir, Golda
Melanin, role in shaping culture
Melting pot theory
Melville, Herman
Memory, politics of
Michigan, University of
Miller, Keith D.
Ministry, author’s
Mitchell, Henry H.
Moby-Dick (Melville)
Modernism
Monster’s Ball (2001)
Montgomery bus boycott
Moonwalk (Jackson)
Moorish Temple Muslims
Moral decline
Morals and Manners Among Negro Americans (Du Bois and Dill, eds.)
Moral strangers, black youth as
Morrison, Toni
Morton, Jelly Roll
Mos Def
Moseley-Braun, Carol
Mottola, Tommy
Moynihan, Daniel
MTV
Muhammad, Elijah
Multiculturalism
Murder. See Homicide
Murray, Albert
Murray, Charles
Music
Aretha Franklin and Vanessa Bell Armstrong
author’s roots in
bebop
black music as American culture
blues
Caribbean music
disco
gospel
jazz
Mariah Carey and
nostalgia over changing forms of
ragtime
sampling
sorrow songs
whites’ control of black music
See also Hip-hop
Mussolini, Benito
The Myth of the Negro Past (Herskovits)
Naked Gun films
Nationalism
Nation of Islam
Neal, Mark Anthony
Neocolonialism
Neonationalism
New Deal
New Jack City (1991)
New jack gospel
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Republic magazine
News media
assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
black public intellectuals
racism and black intellectuals
Newton, Patricia
New York Times
New York Times Book Review
Nihilism
Northwestern University
Nostalgia, politics of
N.W.A. (Niggas With Attitude)
O’Connor, Sandra Day
Oklahoma City bombing
Omi, Michael
Operation Hope
Oprah (television program)
Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Owens, Chandler
Paper bag test
Pappas, Theodore
Parenthood
author’s experience with
Boyz N the Hood
disciplining children
Parker, Bernard
Parks, Gordon
Partisan Review journal
Patriarchy
Patterson, Orlando
Pattison, Robert
Pedophilic priests
Perception
Perry, Bruce
Perry, Edmund
Perry, Jonah
Perry, Veronica
Pet Negro system
Phallic symbolism
Phillips, William
Pigmentocracy
Pippin, James
Pius XI
Plagiarism
Plastic surgery
Plato
Pluralism, religious
Poitier, Sidney
Police brutality
author’s firsthand experience
depriving urban dwellers of privacy and identity
in Lee’s movies
personal experience versus theory
rap depiction of
Rodney King
whites’ reaction to
Political correctness
The Rlitical Legacy of Malcolm X (T’shaka)
Politics
American-Cuban relations
Clinton’s failure to address race
identity politics
King’s moral vision
of free speech
of gangsta rap
of jazz
of nostalgia
racism and music
subversive empathy
Poor white trash
Pop culture
Pop rap
Postmodernism
black modernists
convergence of rhetorical universes
defining masculinity
hip-hop as
home and identity
information glut
Michael Jackson’s postmodern spirituality
television and pop culture
Poussaint, Ann Ashmore
Poverty
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
Powell, Lewis
Prashad, Vijay
The Preacher King (Lischer)
Preaching
about sexuality
academic lecturing as
Aretha and C.L. Franklin’s vocal pyrotechnics
as one facet of identity
Black History Month
body-centered culture
role in King’s message and voice
Taylor, Gardner
See also Gospel music; Religion
Presley, Elvis
Price, Vincent
Prince
Princeton University
Prison
author’s brother’s imprisonment
limiting the pool of available black men
population statistics
sexual fantasies about
Probation Challenge (organization)
Prophetic Fragments (West)
Prophets
Pryor, Richard
Psychobiography
Public Enemy
Public intellectuals
Purity and Danger (Douglass)
Quilts
Qu’ran
Raboteau, Albert
Race
alternatives to liberal theory
as factor in college admissions
Cuban perception of
determining racial categories
explaining the Simpson trial verdict
importance of discourse on
liberal theory of
rise of black public intellectuals
Race Rules (Dyson)
Racial clarification
Racial concealment
Racial Formation in the United States (Omi and Winant)
Racial formation theory
Racial justification
Racial memory. See Nostalgia, politics of
Racism
author’s education
black sexuality and
college admissions criteria and
distorting the history of African Americans
impact on development of jazz
impact on Martin Luther King
Jeffries’s emulation of white racism
melanin theory and
on college campuses
political correctness as
pop music versus hip-hop culture
portrayal in Do the Right Thing
powerlessness of black men
rap’s portrayal of
response to the Simpson trial
Simpson case reawakening hostilities
transcending racism for humanity
See also Police brutality; White supremacy
Ragtime music
Raising Hell
Randolph, A. Phillip
Rap. See Hip-hop
Rape
“Rapper’s Delight
Ravitch, Diane
Ray, Ola
Reagan, Ronald
Red Hook Housing Project, Brooklyn, New York
Reed, Adolf
Reed, Willis
Reflecting Black (Dyson)
Reggae music
Religion
as factor in Edmund Perry’s life
author’s education and development
author’s ministry
body-centered aspect of
church-state relations
Elijah Complex award
erotic engagements with God
Everett Dyson-Bey’s conversion to Islam
evolution of character
freeing blacks from white-imposed sexual values
good and evil
gospel music
influencing public speaking
institutional expression of whiteness and white supremacy
institutions as source of misogyny and homophobia
intellectualism and
King’s moral vision
King’s vocation
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X as public moralist
Michael Jackson’s roots
power of black pulpit for effecting change
religious freedom
sacred scriptures as guide to homosexual relationships
Sampson’s influence
sexual exploitation by clergy
sexual healing of homosexuals through the Bible
sexuality and
theology of eroticism
theology of homoeroticism
the quest for black identity during turmoil
versus social transformation
See also Preaching; Spirituality
Resistance
Revolutionaries
Rhythm and blues music
Rich, Matty
Rigor of intellectual work
Riley, Teddy
Riots
Rival epistemologies
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Jackie
Robinson, Melanie
Robinson, Patricia
Rock ’n’ roll music
Rodman, Dennis
Roediger, David
Rogers, Cornish
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosaldo, Renato
Run-D.M.C.
Russell, Bertrand
Sampling (grafting of music)
Sampson, Frederick George II
Sandalow, Terrence
Scherer, Paul
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Schmeling, Max
Scholars
Schultz, Michael
Schuyler, George
Scott-Heron, Gil
Segregation
alternative affirmative action programs
jazz as weapon against
politics of memory
urban migration
Self Destruction
Self-hatred of blacks
African American film’s treatment of
homosexuals
importance of skin color in women
Senate hearing
Separate Baptists
Sexism. See Gender relations
Sexuality
body-centered culture
domestic violence of O.J. Simpson
erotic engagements with God
gangsta rap
importance of fantasy
jazz and sexual play
Kobe Bryant’s alleged sexual abuse
poor white trash and
pop, jazz, and rap
reasons black men don’t want black women
reasons black men want white women
reasons black women don’t want black men
reasons black women want white men
sexual exploitation by clergy
sexual obsession of hip-hop
the black church and
theology of eroticism
the paradox of black sexuality
white community’s response to jazz
See also Homosexuality
Shaffer, Nash
Shakespeare, William
Shakur, Tupac
complexity of the perceived persona
embodying the best and worst of rap
legal troubles
symbolism of Tupac’s body
thug life
variety and complexity of rap
Shan, M.C.
Sharecropping
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
Simpson, Nicole
Simpson, O.J.
blacks’ and whites’ responses to trial
comparison to Kobe Bryant case
domestic violence
hero celebration of
playing the “race card
Teflon racelessness of
Singleton, John
Slavery
defining Western freedom through
importance of skin color
Jews as financiers of slave trade
legacy of violence and death of black men
long-term effects of
resistance strategies
roots of black Christianity
sharecropping as
white dominance and white supremacy
Slotkin, Richard
Smalls, Biggie
Smith, Jonathan
Smith, Michael W.
Smith, Susan
Sneakers
Social activism
Social commentary, rap as
Social heroism
Socialism
Social Text journal
Social transformation versus religious belief
Socioeconomic status
affirmative action and college admissions
dividing middle-class blacks
influencing black men’s choice of women
influencing black women’s choice of men
whiteness discourse
Song of Solomon (Morrison)
The Sopranos (television program)
Soul music
Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois)
Sounds of Blackness
South Central Los Angeles, California
Speech, freedom of
Spillers, Hortense
Spirituality
good and evil
Michael Jackson’s postmodern spirituality
Prophet Award
See also Religion
Spirituality for Ministry (Holmes)
Sports
baseball
basketball
See also Athletes
Squirewell, Michael
Steinem, Gloria
Stewart, Carl
Stout, Jeffrey
Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
Strength to Love (King)
Stuart, Charles
Subversive empathy
Suicide rate
Supreme Court, U.S.
Sweet Sweetback s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Swing music
Syke, Big
Syncopation
Syphilis study
Tabloids
Take Six
Tatiana
Taylor, Gardner
Taylor, Laura
Television
intellectual development and
MichaelJackson’s spirituality
violence portrayed on
Temperton, Rod
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Tenure
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Douglas)
Terrorism
“The Devil’s Music” documentary
“The Negro Art Hokum” (Schuyler
“The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (Hughes
Theodicy
Thomas, Clarence
Thornton, Billy Bob
Thriller (video)
Thug life
Thurman, Howard
Tindley, Charles
Tomasky, Michael
Tone Loc
Townsend, Robert
Transition journal
T’shaka, Oba
Tucker, C. Delores
Turner, Frederick J.
Tuskegee Study
Ulysses (Tennyson)
Unabomber
Underground Railroad
Unemployment rate
Union labor
Universal Zulu Nation
Urban life. See Ghetto life
Urban migration
Urban rebellion
Values espoused by rap
Vanderbilt University
Van Houten, Lee
Van Peebles, Mario
Van Peebles, Melvin
Van Vechten, Carl
Ventura, Michael
The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution (Wolfenstein)
Videos
Vietnamese Americans
Vietnam War
Village Voice
Violence
as cause and effect of hip-hop
author’s experience with
Chicago race riots
child abuse
controversy over role in black liberation
domestic violence of O.J. Simpson
in Boyz N the Hood
in Lee’s movies
in rap
juvenocracy concept
King’s commitment to nonviolence
white racial violence
See also Homicide
Voice of Deliverance (Miller)
Wage gap
Walker, Wyatt Tee
Ward, Clara
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George
Washington, James Melvin
Watley, Jody
“We Are the World
Weber, Max
Werewolf character
West, Cornel
analysis of race
as public intellectual
author’s dissertation
humility of
influence on the author
on black nihilism
on King’s commitment to nonviolence
postmodernism
Prophet Award
West Coast rap
When the Word Is Given: A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim World (Lomax)
White, E.B.
White Citizens’ Councils
White culture
fear of black urban migration
hip-hop bridging the gap with black culture
relationship with jazz
White liberalism
White male anger
Whiteman, Paul
Whiteness
America’s hostile treatment of
analysis of white identity
Clinton’s failure to address race
economies of
eradicating white supremacy
gender difference and class difference
globalization of
identity politics
public discourse on whiteness and race
white male anger
whiteness studies
White supremacy
eroticization of
institutional expression of
many faces of white domination
white ignorance of
whiteness studies
white racial violence
See also Racism Whitewishing
Whitman, Walt
Wideman, John Edgar
Wieseltier, Leon
Wilentz, Sean
Will, George
Williams, Lana
Williams, Robert
Wills, Gary
Wilson, Charles
Wilson, William Julius
Winans, Be Be
Winans, Ce Ce
Winant, Howard
Winterson, Jeanette
Wolfenstein, Eugene Victor
Women
Aretha Franklin and Vanessa Bell Armstrong
as subject of fantasy
developing consciousness of womanist tradition
feminist response to the Simpson trial
interracial sex
in the ministry
Mariah Carey’s music
marriage and divorce statistics
misogyny of rap
ordination of
portrayed in blues, jazz, soul, and R&B
reasons black men don’t want black women
reasons black men want white women
reasons black women don’t want black men
reasons black women want white men
sexism in rap
sexual exploitation by clergy
Wood, Joe
World War II
Wright, Jay
Wright, Richard
Young, Lester
Zangwill, Israel
Z magazine