Index

Abel, Elizabeth

Abernathy, Ralph

Abide With Me (Harris)

abolitionist movement

Abrahams, Roger D.

Abu-Jamal, Mumia

academia. See also African American literary studies; black-studies programs

Adulthood Rites (Butler)

affirmative action

Africa

African American Jazz and Rap: Social and Philosophical Examinations of Black Expressive Behavior (Conyers)

African American literary studies. See also black-studies programs

African American Literary Theory: A Reader (ed. Napier)

African American literature: through 1960s; 1970 to present; 1980s; 1990s; canon

African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology (ed. Young)

African American Review

African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel (Dickson-Carr)

African Diaspora

African in Me, The (Gordon)

“Afro-American Literary Critics: An Introduction” (Turner)

Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, The (Bell)

Afrocentric Idea, The (Asante)

Afrocentricity

Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change (Asante)

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice (Sinclair)

Ain’t No Ambulances for No Nigguhs Tonight (Crouch)

Ain’t No River (Foster)

Aithal, S. Krishnamoorthy

Alex Haley’s Queen (Haley)

Alice Malsenior Walker: An Annotated Bibliography (Pratt and Pratt)

Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (ed. Gates and Appiah)

All American Dream Dolls (Haynes)

Allan, Tuzyline Jita

allegory

Allen, Jeffrey Renard

All Night Visitors (Major)

“All of Me” (Tarpley)

All Stories Are True (Wideman)

All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies (ed. Hull, Scott, and Smith)

A Long Way from Home, A (Briscoe)

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (Mosley)

American Africanism

American Book Award

American Dreams (Sapphire)

American Literature

American Mercury

American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century (ed. Rubin and Melnick)

Amistad (ed. Harris and Williams)

Amistad (movie)

Amistad (slave ship)

Amoralists and Other Stories, The (Colter)

Anaya, Rudolfo

Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe (ed. Rowell)

And Do Remember Me (Golden)

And I Heard a Bird Sing (Guy)

And Then We Heard the Thunder (Killens)

And This Too Shall Pass (Harris)

Angelou, Maya

Angry Ones, The (Williams)

Annie John (Kincaid)

Another Country (Baldwin)

Another Good Loving Blues (Flowers)

Anozie, Sunday Ogbonna

anthologies. See also Black Writers of America; Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition; Norton Anthology of African American Literature

Anthology of American Negro Literature (ed. Calverton)

Anzaldúa, Gloria

apotropaic acts

Appiah, Kwame Anthony

artists and communities

Asante, Molefi Kete

Ashe, Bertram

Ask Me Now (Young)

Assing, Ottilie

Atet A.D. (Mackey)

Atlanta child murders

“Atlanta Compromise,”

At the Bottom of the River (Kincaid)

Attica

Attica Diary (Coons)

Auger, Philip

“Aunt Medea” (Crouch)

autobiography. See also slave narrative

Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (Johnson)

Autobiography of Malcolm X, The

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (Gaines)

Autobiography of My Mother (Kincaid)

avant-garde authors

Ayler, Albert

Baartman, Sarah

Babylon Boyz (Mowry)

Baby of the Family (Ansa)

Bad Boy: A Memoir (Myers)

Bad Boy Brawly Brown (Mosley)

Baghdad Blues: The Revolution That Brought Saddam Hussein to Power (Greenlee)

Bailey’s Café (Naylor)

Baker, Houston A., Jr.

Balancing Act (Bunkley)

Baldwin, James

Bambaataa, Afrika

Bambara, Toni Cade

banned books

Banner-Haley, Charles T.

Baraka, Amiri (né LeRoi Jones); Baldwin, view of; Black Arts Repertory Theater/School; critique of; on role of black artist

Barksdale, Richard

Barnes, Stephen

Bayliss, John F.

B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-on-Black Love Story (Hardy)

Beach Umbrella, The (Colter)

Beatty, Paul

Beaumont, Eric

Bedouin Hornbook (Mackey)

Before Columbus Foundation

Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology, The (ed. Reed, Trueblood, and Wong)

Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology, The (ed. Phillips, Reed, Strads, and Wong)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Bell, Bernard W.

“Beloved and the New Apocalypse”

(Bowers)

Beloved (Morrison); as neo–slave narrative; Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club and; prison scene

Benjamin, Shanna

Bennett, George Harold (Hal)

Berhama Account, The (Williams)

Berry, Lemuel E., Jr.

Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 (ed. Gomez and Taormino)

Betsey Brown (Shange)

Between, The (Due)

Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (Dyson)

“Beyond Morrison and Walker: Looking Good and Looking Forward in Contemporary Black Women’s Stories” (Reid)

Beyond the Limbo Silence (Nunez)

Big Girls Don’t Cry (Briscoe)

Big Mama Stories, The (Young-blood)

Big Tank Take Little Bank (Beatty)

bildungsroman

Birmingham bombing

Black Aesthetic

Black Aesthetic, The (Gayle)

“Black Aesthetic in the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties, The” (Randall)

Black American Literature Forum. See African American Review

“Black Art: Mute Matter Given Force and Function” (Karenga)

Black Arts Movement; artist and communities; canon formation and; journals. See also Black Aesthetic; Black Aesthetic, The; Black Nationalism

“Black Arts Movement, The” (Neal)

Black Arts Repertory Theater/School

Black Betty (Mosley)

Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism (Nielsen)

“Black Cultural Nationalism” (Karenga)

Black English Vernacular (BEV)

Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by and About Black Women (ed. Washington)

Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds: Stories by and About Black Women (ed. Washington)

black feminism. See womanism

“Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood, A” (Wallace)

“Black Feminist Statement, A” (Combahee River Collective)

Black Fiction

Black Gangster (Goines)

Black Girl in Paris (Youngblood)

Black Gold (Bunkley)

Black Ice (Cary)

Black Literature and Literary Theory (ed. Gates and Anozie)

Black Nationalism; objections to. See also Black Aesthetic; Black Arts Movement; separatism

Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Development of John Edgar Wideman (Coleman)

“Blackness Can: A Quest for Aesthetics” (Emanuel)

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Rose)

Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

Black Panther Party (new organization)

Black Popular Culture (Wallace and Dent)

Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos (Wright)

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (Carmichael and Hamilton)

Black Power movement

Black Rose, The (Due)

Black Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and Critical Essays (ed. Killens)

Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy (Baker)

Black Studies Department (San Francisco State College)

black-studies programs. See also African American literary studies

Black Wine, The (Bennett)

Black Wings and Blind Angels (Sapphire)

Black Woman, The (ed. Bambara)

Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976 (Christian)

Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic (Dubey)

Black Women Writers at Work (Tate)

Black World

“Black Writer and His Role, The” (Gerald)

Black Writers of America: A Comprehensive Anthology (Barksdale and Kinnamon)

Blaxploitation films

Blessings (Jackson)

Blind Ambitions (Files)

“Bloodchild” and Other Stories (Butler)

Bloodworth Orphans, The (Forrest)

“Bloody Sunday,”

Blue Collar Blues (McMillan)

Blue Devils of NADA, The (Murray)

Blue Light (Mosley)

“Blueprint for Negro Writing” (Wright)

blues

Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (Baker)

Blueschild Baby (Cain)

“Blues for Mister Charlie” (Baldwin)

Bluest Eye, The (Morrison)

Bombingham (Grooms)

book clubs

Book of American Negro Poetry (ed. Johnson)

“Born with Religion” (Young-blood)

Bourgeois Blues (Lamar)

bourgeois values, critique of

Bowers, Susan

Bracks, Lean’tin L.

Bradley, David

Bravard, Robert

break dancing

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction (ed. McMillan)

Breath, Eyes, Memory (Danticat)

Bright Shadow (Thomas)

Briscoe, Connie

Broadway musicals

Broken Silences: Interviews with Black and White Women Writers (Jordan)

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Brothers and Keepers (Wideman)

Brothers and Sisters (Campbell)

Brothers of Attica, The (Clark)

Brown, Cecil

Brown, Elaine

Brown, H. Rap

Brown, William Wells

Brown Girl, Brownstones (Marshall)

Brown Girl in the Ring (Hopkinson)

Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction (Taylor)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Bruised Hibiscus (Nunez)

Brzezinski, Max

Bunkley, Anita Richmond

Business As Usual (Haynes)

Butler, Octavia Estelle

Butler, Robert

Butler-Evans, Elliott

Byerman, Keith

Byrd, Rudolph P.

By the Light of My Father’s Smile (Walker)

“By the Way of Morning Fire” (Weaver)

Cain, George M.

Callahan, John F.

Callaloo; issues devoted to authors

Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (ed. Hill, Bell, Harris et al.)

Calverton, V. F.

Cambridge (Phillips)

Campbell, Bebe Moore

Cancer Journals, The (Lorde)

canon formation

capitalism

Captain Blackman (Williams)

Carmichael, Stokely

Carrothers, James D.

Cary, Lorene

Caucasia (Senna)

Caught Up in the Rapture (Jackson)

Césaire, Aimé

Chaneysville Incident, The (Bradley)

“Changing Same, The: (R&B and New Black Music)” (Jones/ Baraka)

Chant of Saints: A Gathering of Afro-American Literature, Art, and Scholarship (ed. Harper and Stepto)

Chase-Riboud, Barbara

Chattanooga (Reed)

Cheaters (Dickey)

Chesnutt, Charles W.

Chicago School of Sociology

Child of God (Files)

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (ed. Naylor)

Children of the Night (Mowry)

children’s literature. See also juvenile literature

Childress, Alice

Chocolate Soldier, A (Colter)

Christian, Barbara T.

Christian literature

City of Light (Colter)

Civil Rights movement; criticism of

CLA Journal

Clarence Major and His Art (Bell)

Clark, Richard X.

Clarke, John Henrik

class issues; in fiction. See also middle class

Clay’s Ark (Butler)

Cleage, Pearl

Cleaver, Eldridge

clichés

!Click Song (Williams)

Clifford’s Blues (Williams)

Clinton, Bill

Close to the Bone (Lamar)

Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (Brown)

Coercion Review

Coffee Will Make You Black (Sinclair)

Coldest Winter Ever, The (Souljah)

Cold Fire Burning, A (Heard)

Coleman, James William

Coleman, Wanda

collective psyche

College Language Association (CLA)

colleges

colloquial language

Color Purple, The (movie)

Color Purple, The (Walker)

Colter, Cyrus

Combahee River Collective

Coming Up Down Home: A Memoir of the Southern Childhood (Brown)

Committee for the Negro in the Arts

communal thought

Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron)

Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF)

Congress of Racial Equality

Conjure-Man Dies, The (Fisher)

“Conjure Woman” stories (Chesnutt)

Conversations with James Baldwin (Pratt)

Conversations with John Edgar Wideman (TuSmith)

Conyers, James L.

Coons, William

Cooper, J. California

Corley, R. Christopher

Corregidora (Jones)

Cotillion, The, or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd (Killens)

Cotton States Exposition

“Could Shakespeare Have Known” (Nunez)

Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO)

Country Place (Petry)

Cowart, David

Crisis, The

Critical Essays on Alice Walker (Dieke)

Critical Essays on James Baldwin (Standley and Standley)

Critical Essays on Toni Morrison (McKay)

Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved (ed. Solomon)

critical realism

critics

Crossing the River (Phillips)

Crouch, Stanley

Cruz, Victor Hernandez

Cullen, Countee

cultural mulattoes

cultural nationalism

cultural pluralism

“Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic” (Gayle)

Culture Wars

Daddy Cool (Goines)

D’Aguiar, Fred

Damas, Guianan Léon

Damballah (Wideman)

Dancers on the Shore (Kelley)

Danticat, Edwidge

Daughters (Marshall)

Davis, Angela Y.

Davis, Mary Kemp

Dawn (Butler)

Day, Lisa B.

Day Late and a Dollar Short, A (McMillan)

Days Without Weather (Brown)

Death List (Goines)

debate about role of art

“Debunking Sapphire: Toward a Non-Racist and Non-Sexist Social Stance” (Scott)

Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions (Bambara)

Delany, Samuel R.

Demby, William

dem (Kelley)

De Mojo Blues: De Quest of High John De Conqueror (Flowers)

Dent, Gina

“Dentist’s Wife, The” (Kelley)

De Santis, Christopher C.

Dessa Rose (Williams)

detective fiction

De Veaux, Alexis

Devil in a Blue Dress (Mosley)

Dewey, John

Dhalgren (Delany)

“D Hexorcism of Noxon D Awful” (Reed)

dialect

Dick, Bruce

Dickey, Eric Jerome

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Dieke, Ikenna

Different Drummer, A (Kelley)

Different Kind of Christmas, A (Haley)

Dirty Bird Blues (Major)

Disappearance, The (Guy)

Disappearing Acts (McMillan)

“Discourse in the Novel” (Bakhtin)

Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing (Mackey)

dispossession

Divine Days (Forrest)

Dixon, Melvin

Djbot Baghostus’s Run (Mackey)

Domingo, W. A.

Don’t Erase Me (Files)

Don’t Explain: Short Fiction (Gomez)

Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing (Crouch)

Dopefiend: The Story of a Black Junkie (Goines)

Do Right Man, A (Tyree)

“Dotson Gerber Resurrected” (Bennett)

double-consciousness

Douglass, Aaron

Douglass, Anna Murray

Douglass, Frederick

Douglass’ Women (Rhodes)

Dove, Rita

Dreamer (Johnson)

“Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” (Packer)

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Packer)

Driving Under the Cardboard Pines and Other Stories (McElroy)

Drop (Johnson)

Drop of Patience, A (Kelley)

Droppin’ Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture (Perkins)

D’Souza, Dinesh

Dubey, Madhu

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.)

Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University

Du Bois/Nash Lecture series

Due, Tananarive

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Dunfords Travels Everywheres (Kelley)

Durham, David Anthony

Dustland (Hamilton)

Dutchman, The (Jones/Baraka)

“Duties of the Black Revolutionary Artist” (Walker)

Dyson, Michael Eric

dystopian societies

Earle, Kathryn

Ebonics controversy

Ebony

Echo of Lions (Chase-Riboud)

Ecstatic, The (LaValle)

Edelin, Kenneth

Edge of Heaven, The (Golden)

Edith Jackson (Guy)

editors. See also Gates, Henry Louis, Jr; Morrison, Toni; Reed, Ishmael

education: colleges; multicultural

Eichelberger, Julia

Elbow Room (McPherson)

Ellis, Trey

Ellison, Ella

Ellison, Ralph. See also Invisible Man; Juneteenth

Emancipation Proclamation

Emanuel, James A.

Emergency Exit (Major)

Emily, the Yellow Rose (Bunkley)

Enchanted Hair Tale, An (DeVeaux)

Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America, The (ed. Bradley)

environmental racism

Erasure (Everett)

Eurocentric viewpoint

European Tribe, The (Phillips)

Eva’s Man (Jones)

“Evening with Hal Bennett, An” (Newman)

Everett, Percival

Evers, Medgar

“Everybody Knows Her Name: The Recovery of the Past in Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose” (Davis)

Everyday Use/Alice Walker (Christian)

“Everyday Use” (Walker)

experimental writing

Fabio, Sarah Webster

Fair, Ronald L.

Faith and the Good Thing (Johnson)

Fallen Angels (Myers)

Family (Cooper)

Fanon, Frantz

fantasy

Farming of Bones, The (Danticat)

Farrakhan, Louis

Faulkner, William

Fauset, Jessie Redmon

Fear Itself (Mosley)

Fearless Jones (Mosley)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

female circumcision

Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (ed. Abel, Christian, and Moglen)

feminist thought; critiques of. See also womanism

Ferrell, Carolyn

Fever (Wideman)

“Fictive Realism of John Edgar Wideman, The” (Abu-Jamal)

Fifth Sunday: Stories (Dove)

Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial” Self (Gates)

Files, Lolita

Final Passage, The (Phillips)

Finding Makeba (Pate)

Fire!!

Fire Next Time, The (Baldwin)

Fisher, Rudolph

Fisher King, The (Marshall)

Fisk University

“Fleshly Ghosts and Ghostly Flesh: The Word and the Body in Beloved” (Lawrence)

Flight to Canada (Reed)

Fling with a Demon Lover, A (Johnson)

Flip Side of Sin, The (McMillan)

Flowers, Arthur R.

Flyboy in the Buttermilk (Tate)

Flying Home and Other Stories (Ellison)

Flyy Girl (Tyree)

folk culture

Fontenot, Chester J., Jr.

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (Shange)

Forrest, Leon

For the Love of Money (Tyree)

Foster, Frances Smith

Foster, Sharon Ewell

Fox, Robert Elliott

Fragments of the Ark (Meriwether)

Friends and Lovers (Dickey)

Friends (Guy)

Friendship, The (Taylor)

From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate (Mackey)

Fuller, Hoyt W.; Negro Digest/Black World and

Fun and Games: Short Fiction (Major)

Future Has a Past, The (Cooper)

Gabriel’s Story (Durham)

Gaines, Ernest J.

Garner, Margaret

Garvey, Marcus

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.; Du Bois Institute and; as editor; preface to Flyboy in the Buttermilk; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

Gathering, The (Hamilton)

Gathering of Old Men, A (Gaines)

gay and lesbian literature; Baldwin; Dixon; Gomez; Hardy; Harris; Kenan; Scott

Gayle, Addison, Jr.

George, Nelson

Gerald, Carolyn F.

Getting to the Good Part (Files)

ghost stories

Ghost Train (Mowry)

Gilda Stories, The (Gomez)

Gill, Candra K.

Ginsberg, Allen

Giovanni, Nikki

Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin)

Girlfriends’ Book. See Sister Novels

Girlfriends (Bunkley, Kitt, and Rutland)

Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion (Tarpley)

Give Birth to Brightness (Williams)

Glance Away, A (Wideman)

Glyph (Everett)

God’s Country (Everett)

Goines, Donald

Gold Cadillac, The (Taylor)

Golden, Marita

Golden Pasture, The (Thomas)

Goldman, Anne E.

Goldman, Judy Ann

Gomez, Jewelle

Gone Fishin’ (Mosley)

Good Hair (Little)

Good House, The (Due)

Good Negress, The (Verdelle)

Gordon, Howard

Gorilla, My Love (Bambara)

Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin)

Got to Be Real: Four Original Love Stories (Harris, Dickey, Channer, and Major)

grants

graphic novels

Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin (Killens)

Great Depression

Great Gettin’ Up Mornin’ (Killens)

Great Migration

Great Society programs

Greenlee, Sam

Griffin, Farah Jasmine

Grigg, Charles

Grooms, Anthony

Guerrero, Ed

“Guess Who’s Coming to Seder?” (Ellis)

Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing (ed. Golden and Harris)

Gumma Wars, The (Haynes)

Guy, Rosa

Haiti

Haley, Alex

Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural (O’Hearn)

Hamilton, Charles V.

Hamilton, Virginia

Hand I Fan With, The (Ansa)

Hardy, James Earl

Hare, Nathan

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Writers Guild

Harper, Frances E. W.

Harper, Michael S.

Harris, Charles F.

Harris, Duchess

Harris, E. Lynn

Harris, Tina M.

Harris, Trudier

Harvard University

Haynes, David

HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities)

Healing, The (Jones)

Heard, Nathan

Heathens (Haynes)

Hemings, Sally

Henderson, Mae

Henry, John

Hernton, Kellman

Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich, A (Childress)

Herron, Carolivia

Hiding Place (Wideman)

Higher Ground (Phillips)

Hill, Patricia Liggins

Himes, Chester

Hip Hop America (George)

hip-hop/rap

Hippodrome, The (Colter)

His Own Where (Jordan)

history, official

HIV/AIDS

Hog Butcher (Cornbread, Earl, and Me) (Fair)

Hogue, W. Lawrence

HOLDINGS Project

Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur (Dyson)

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (ed. Smith)

Homemade Love (Cooper)

Home Repairs (Ellis)

Homewood Trilogy (Wideman)

Hopkinson, Nalo

horror genre

Hottentot Venus (Chase-Riboud)

House Behind the Cedars, The (Chesnutt)

House of Light (Thomas)

House of Slammers (Heard)

Howard Street (Heard)

“How She Came by Her Name” (Massiah)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (McMillan)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (film)

Hue and Cry (McPherson)

Hughes, Langston,

Hull, Gloria T.

Hunter, Tera

Hunting in Harlem (Johnson)

Hurry Home (Wideman)

Hurston, Zora Neale

Hutcheon, Linda

Ice Poems (Grooms)

If 6 Were 9 (Lamar)

If Beale Street Could Talk (Baldwin)

If Only for One Nite (Hardy)

If This World Were Mine (Harris)

I Get on the Bus (McKnight)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou)

I Left My Back Door Open (Sinclair)

I Love My Hair! (Tarpley)

“‘I Made the Ink’: (Literary) Production and Reproduction in Dessa Rose and Beloved” (Goldman)

Imago (Butler)

Imbrie, Ann E.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs)

income inequality

Infants of the Spring (Thurman)

inferiority theories, resistance to

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (Walker)

In My Father’s House (Gaines)

Inner City Hoodlum (Goines)

Insanity Runs in Our Family (Bennett)

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (Walker)

In Search of Satisfaction (Cooper)

integrationism; gradualist program

Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The, or Gusatvus Vassa, the African

In the First Person and in the House (Troy)

In the Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (Walker)

In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers

“Introduction: Towards a Black Aesthetic” (Fuller)

Introduction to Black Studies (Karenga)

Introduction to Literature (ed. Williams)

Intuitionist, The (Whitehead)

Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (Wallace)

“Invisible Black Family Man, The” (Pate)

Invisible Life (Harris)

Invisible Man (Ellison)

“‘I Reach to Where the Freedom Is’: The Influence of the Slave Narratives Tradition on A. J. Verdelle’s The Good Negress” (Day)

irony

Itch, The (Little)

I Wish I Had a Red Dress (Cleage)

Jackson, George

Jackson, Jessie

Jackson, Sheneska

Jacobs, Harriet

Jacob’s Ladder (Williams)

Jamaicans

James, Darius

James, Kelvin Christopher

James Baldwin: A Biography (Leeming)

James Baldwin: A Critical Evaluation (O’Daniel)

James Baldwin: A Reference Guide (Standley and Standley)

James Baldwin (Pratt)

James Baldwin’s Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey (Scott)

James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection

Janeway, Harriet. See Bennett, George Harold

Japanese by Spring (Reed)

jazz

Jazz (Morrison)

Jefferson, Thomas

Jerome (Fair)

Jesus and Fat Tuesday and Other Short Stories (McElroy)

Jet

Jim Crow

John A. Williams: Evolution of a Black Writer (Muller)

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

John Edgar Wideman: A Study of the Short Fiction (Byerman)

John Edgar Wideman: Reclaiming the African Personality (Mbalia)

John Henry Days (Whitehead)

Johnson, Abby Arthur

Johnson, Barbara

Johnson, Charles Richard

Johnson, Charles S.

Johnson, James Weldon

Johnson, Jane

Johnson, John H.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Johnson, Mat

Johnson, Ronald Maberry

Joker Joker Deuce (Beatty)

Jones, Edward P.

Jones, Gayl

Jones, LeRoi. See Baraka, Amiri

Jordan, June

Jordan, Shirley M.

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The

Journal of Black Studies

Journey (Thomas)

Joyce, James

Joyce, Joyce Ann

Jubilee (Walker)

Jumping Ship and Other Stories (James)

Juneteenth (Ellison)

Just Above My Head (Baldwin)

Just As I Am (Harris)

Justice and Her Brothers (Hamilton)

juvenile literature. See also children’s literature; young-adult literature

Karenga, Maulana Ron

Kawaida theory

Kelley, William Melvin

Kenan, Randall

Kennedy, John F.

Kenyatta’s Escape (Goines)

Kenyatta’s Last Hit (Goines)

Kermit, S. L.. See Delany, Samuel R.

Kgositsile, W. Keoraptse

Killens, John Oliver

Killian, Lewis

Kincaid, Jamaica

Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, The (McKnight)

Kindred (Butler)

King, Martin Luther, Jr.; fiction about

King, Rodney

Kinnamon, Kenneth

Kitt, Sandra

Kitwana, Bakari

Knowing (McMillan)

Known World, The (Jones)

Konch

Kool Herc

Krik? Krak! (Danticat)

Krim, Adam

Kubitschek, Missy Dean

Künstlerroman

Kwanzaa

Lamar, Jake

Landsman, Julie

language use

Larson, Charles R.

Last Days of Louisiana Red, The (Reed)

Last Integrationist, The (Lamar)

Lauret, Maria

LaValle, Victor D.

Laveau, Marie

Lawrence, David

Lee, Don L. (Haki Madhubuti)

Lee, Helen Elaine

Leeming, David

Lefkowitz, Mary

Legends of the Saints (Petry)

Lesson Before Dying, A (Gaines)

Letters from Attica (Melville)

Let the Circle be Unbroken (Taylor)

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and Other Stories (Kenan)

Levitt, Leonard

Liar’s Game (Dickey)

Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature (Jones)

Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger The (Brown)

Liliane (Shange)

Lilith’s Brood (Butler)

Li’l Mama’s Rules (Jackson)

Linden Hills (Naylor)

literary prizes. See also American Book Award; Before Columbus Foundation

Little, Benilde

Little Yellow Dog, A (Mosley)

Liu, Eric

Live at Five (Haynes)

Living Blood, The (Due)

loa

local color genre

Locke, Alain

long, hot summers

Long Distance Life (Golden)

Longest Memory, The (D’Aguiar)

Lorde, Audre

Lord of Dark Places (Bennett)

Losing Absalom (Pate)

Lost in the City (Jones)

Love (Morrison)

Love Story Black (Demby)

Lucy (Kincaid)

Lynchers, The (Wideman)

lynching; in fiction

M. C. Higgins, The Great (Hamilton)

MacArthur “Genius” Grants

McCall, Nathan

McElroy, Collis

McKay, Claude

McKay, Nellie Y.

Mackey, Nathaniel

McKissick, Floyd

McKnight, Reginald

McMillan, Rosalyn

McMillan, Terry. See also Waiting to Exhale

McPherson, James Alan

Madhubuti, Haki. See Lee, Don L.

magical realism

Magic City (Rhodes)

Major, Clarence

Makes Me Wanna Holler (McCall)

Making Callaloo: Twenty-five Years of Black Literature

Malcolm X; assassination of

male authors

Mama Day (Naylor)

Mama (McMillan)

Man Ain’t Nothing but a Man: The Adventures of John Henry (Killens)

Man Who Cried I Am, The (Williams)

Many Thousand Gone (Fair)

“Many Thousands Gone” (Baldwin)

March Against Fear

Marked by Fire (Thomas)

Marks, Kathleen

Márquez, Gabriel García

Marrow of Tradition, The (Chesnutt)

Marsalis, Wynton

Marshall, Paule

masculinity

Massiah, Louis

Matter Is Life, The (Cooper)

Mayfield, Julian

Mbalia, Doreatha D.

Measure of Time, A (Guy)

Melnick, Jeffrey

Melville, Samuel

Men of Brewster Place, The (Naylor)

Meridian (Walker)

Meriwether, Louise

Messenger, The

middle class; new black aesthetic and

Middle Passage (Johnson)

Middleton, David L.

Midnight Birds: Stories by Contemporary Black Women Writers (Washington)

Midnight Robber (Hopkinson)

Migrations of the Heart (Golden)

Milk in My Coffee (Dickey)

Miller, D. Quentin

Mirror of Her Own (Guy)

Miss Muriel and Other Stories (Petry)

Mitchell-Kernan, Claudia

modernism

Modern Language Association of America

Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South (Weisenburger)

Moglen, Helene

Mojo: Conjure Stories (Hopkinson)

Mojo Rising: Confessions of a Twenty-first Century Conjureman (Flowers)

Moment’s Notice: Jazz in Poetry in Prose (Mackey and Lange)

monoculturalism

Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott

Moraga, Cherríe

Morrison, Toni; as editor; Nobel Prize; Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club and. See also Beloved; Bluest Eye, the

“Moses Project, The” (Petry)

Mosley, Walter

Mosquito (Jones)

motherhood

Moustapha’s Eclipse (McKnight)

MOVE organization

movies: Amistad; Baldwin documentaries; Beloved; Blaxploitation films; The Color Purple; A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich; How Stella Got Her Groove Back; Waiting to Exhale; The Women of Brewster Place

Mowry, Jess

Ms.

MTV

Muhammad, Elijah

Muhammad, Khalid

Muhammad Speaks

“Mulatto Millennium, The” (Senna)

Mullen, Harryette

Muller, Gilbert

Multicultiboho Sideshow, The (Pate)

multiculturalism

Mumbo Jumbo (Reed)

Murray, Albert

music. See also blues; hip-hop/rap; jazz

Music of Summer, The (Guy)

Muslim Mosque, Inc.

My Amputations (Major)

Myers, Walter Dean

My Love, My Love (Guy)

“My Mother” (Kincaid)

My Soul to Keep (Due)

mythologies

Naked Came the Manatee (Due)

Na-Ni (De Veaux)

Napier, Winston

Nappy Hair (Herron)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (Douglass)

narrative voice

Narrows, The (Petry)

Nation, The

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Association of African American Studies (NAAAS)

National Black Writers Conference

National Book Award

National Endowment for the Arts

National Urban League

Nation of Islam (NOI)

Native American culture

Native Sons in No Man’s Land: Rewriting Afro-American Manhood in the Novels of Baldwin, Walker, Wideman, and Gaines (Auger)

Native Son (Wright)

naturalism

Naylor, Gloria; as editor

Neal, Larry

Neal, Mark Anthony

Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism (Major)

Négritude

Negro American Literature Forum. See African American Review

“Negro and the American Theater, The” (Locke)

“Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, The” (Hughes)

Negro Caravan (ed. Brown, Davis, and Lee)

Negro Digest/Black World

Negrophobia (James)

Neogy, Rajat

neorealism/urban realism

neo–slave narratives. See also Beloved; Blueschild Baby; Chaneysville Incident, The; Corregidora; Dessa Rose; Flight to Canada; Good Negress, The; Middle Passage; Price of a Child; Sally Hemings; Valide: A Novel of the Harem

Neo-slave Narratives (Rushdy)

neo-soul. See new black aesthetic

“New Black Aesthetic, The” (Ellis)

New Black Aesthetic (NBA). See also Post-Soul generation

“New Black Literature, The: Protest or Affirmation” (Fuller)

new black renaissance

new breed or new fiction. See also new black aesthetic

New Guys Around the Block (Guy)

New Literary History

Newman, Katherine

New Negro, The (ed. Locke)

New Negro Renaissance. See Harlem Renaissance

New Republic, The

Newton, Huey P.

New Yorker

Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation (ed. Liu)

Niagara Movement for Civil Rights

Nielsen, Aldon Lynn

Night Song (Williams)

Night Studies (Colter)

1984 (Delany)

19 Necromancers from Now (Reed)

Nino, Pedro Alonzo

Niven, Larry

Nobel Prize in literature

No Disrespect (Souljah)

No (Major)

NOMMO Performing Arts Company

nonfiction works

Northern black communities

Norton Anthology of African American Literature, The (ed. Gates and McKay)

Not a Day Goes By (Harris)

“Notes of a Native Son” (Baldwin)

Nugent, Richard Bruce

Nunez, Elizabeth

O’Daniel, Therman B.

“Of Our Spiritual Strivings” (Du Bois)

“Of the Sorrow Songs” (Du Bois)

O’Hearn, Claudine C.

Omi, Michael

Omni-Americans, The (Murray)

“On Becoming an American Writer” (McPherson)

Once on This Island (Guy)

One Better (McMillan)

“One Child of One’s Own: A Meaningful Digression within the Work(s)—an Excerpt” (Walker)

One for New York (Williams)

On the Pulse of the Morning (Angelou)

Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture, and Religion (Kitwana)

Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life

Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club

oral traditions

Oreo (Ross)

Organization of African Unity (OAU)

Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)

Organization of Black American Culture

Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North, Showing That Slavery’s Shadows Follow Even There (Wilson)

out of print works

Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar (McElroy)

Oxherding Tale (Johnson)

Packer, ZZ

Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar (Major)

Parable of the Sower (Butler)

Parable of the Talents (Butler)

Paradise (Morrison)

Paris intellectuals

Passing by Samaria (Foster),

Pate, Alexs D.

“Paths to the Future” (Kgositsile)

Patternist series (Butler)

Patterson, Orlando

“‘Payin’ One’s Dues’: Expatriation as Personal Experience and Paradigm in the Works of James Baldwin” (Tomlinson)

Peacock Poems, The (Williams)

Peplow, Michael W.

Perkins, William Eric

Perry, Phyllis Alesia

Peterkins, Julia

Petry, Ann Lane

Philadelphia bombing

Philadelphia Fire (Wideman)

Phillips, Caryl

Phillips, J. J.

Phylon

Piece of Mine, A (Cooper)

Pinckney, Darryl

Plant of Junior Brown, The (Hamilton)

Platitudes (Ellis)

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Morrison)

Plessy v. Ferguson

plotline

pluralism

Podhoretz, Norman

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Wheatley)

poetry; Dove; hip-hop influence

popular culture; Black Nationalism and. See also hip-hop/rap

popular fiction. See also McMillan, Terry; Waiting to Exhale

Possessing the Secret of Joy (Walker)

post–Civil Rights generation

posthumous publication

postmodernism; hip-hop and; Reed’s objection to

Post-Soul generation; hip-hop/rap and. See also New Black Aesthetic

poststructuralism

Powell, Kevin

Praisesong for the Widow (Marshall)

Pratt, Darnell D.

Pratt, Louis H.

presidency

President’s Daughter, The (Chase-Riboud)

Preston, Rohan B.

Price of a Child (Cary)

Pride (Cary)

Pride of Carthage: A Novel of Hannibal (Durham)

prison system

Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of African American Magazines in the Twentieth Century (Johnson and Johnson)

Pryor, Richard

publishing industry; African American presses; Harlem Renaissance and. See also editors

Pushkin, Alexander

Push (Sapphire)

Quilt

quotas

Race, Gender, and Desire (Butler-Evans)

Race Relations Institute, Fisk University

“Racism and Women’s Studies” (Smith)

Rails Under My Back (Allen)

Rainbow Jordan (Childress)

Randall, Alice

Randall, Dudley

Rap Attack, The: African Jive to New York Hip-Hop (Toop)

Rap Attack 2: African Rap to Global Hip-Hop (Toop)

rap music. See hip-hop/rap

Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (Krim)

“Rapper’s Delight” (Sugar Hill Gang)

Rats in the Trees (Mowry)

readership

Reagan, Ronald

realism; critical; magical; neorealism/urban realism; social

“Recitatif” (Morrison)

Reckless Eyeballing (Reed)

Reconstruction period

Red Death, A (Mosley)

Red Summer of 1919

Reed, Clarence

Reed, Ishmael; Before Columbus Foundation and; feminist thought, view of; postmodernism, view of. See also Mumbo Jumbo

Reed Publishing Company

Reed Reader, The (Reed)

Reena and Other Stories (Marshall)

Reflex and Bone Structure (Major)

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Reid, E. Shelley

relationship/romance fiction. See also McMillan, Terry; Waiting to Exhale

“Researching Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Personal and Literary Perspective” (Hull)

“Return, The: A Fantasy” (Jones)

Return to Nevèrÿon series (Delany)

Reuben (Wideman)

Revere, John D. See Bennett, George Harold

Re-Viewing James Baldwin (Miller)

Rhodes, Jewell Parker

Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature (Dixon)

Right By My Side (Haynes)

Right Here, Right Now (Ellis)

riots

Rivera, Louis Reyes

River of Eros, The (Colter)

RL’s Dream (Mosley)

Road to Memphis, The (Taylor)

Rockefeller, Nelson

Rodgers, Carolyn

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor)

Roots: The Next Generation

Roots (Haley)

Roots (television miniseries)

Rose, Tricia

Rosenblatt, Roger

Ross, Fran

Rowell, Charles Henry

Rubin, Rachel

Ruby (Guy)

Rushdy, Ashraf H. A.

Rutland, Eva

Saint James, Synthia

Sallis, James

Sally Hemings (Chase-Riboud)

Salt Eaters, The (Bambara)

Salt Roads, The (Hopkinson)

sampling

Sanchez, Sonia

San Francisco State College

Sapphire

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Sassafras: A Novella (Shange)

Sassafras, Cypres, and Indigo (Shange)

satire. See also Reed, Ishmael

Saunders, Charles R.

Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkins)

Scenes from a Sistah (Files)

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.

Schomburg, Arthur A.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

science/speculative fiction and fantasy. See also Butler, Octavia Estelle; Delany, Samuel R.

Scott, Darieck

Scott, Joanna

Scott, Lynn Orilla

Scott, Patricia Bell

screenplays

Seabirds Are Still Alive, The (Bambara)

Seale, Bobby

Second Time Around (Hardy)

Secrets (Johnson)

Seduction by Light (Young)

segregation

Séjour, Victor

“Selected Bibliography of Black Feminism” (Scott)

self-hatred

self-help industry, criticism of

Sellers, Frances Stead

Senghor, Léopold Sédar

Senna, Danzy

Sent for You Yesterday (Wideman)

separatism. See also Black Nationalism

Serpent’s Gift, The (Lee)

Seven League Boots, The (Murray)

Seventh Heaven (Bennett)

sexuality

Shadow and Act (Ellison)

Shange, Ntozake

Short Walk, A (Childress)

signifying

Signifying Monkey, The: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (Gates)

Simmons, Diane

Sinclair, April

Single Mom (Tyree)

Sissie (Williams)

Sister, Sister (Dickey)

Sister Novels

Sisters and Lovers (Briscoe)

Sisters (Bunkley, Kitt, and Rutland)

Sitting Pretty (Young)

Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories (Mosley)

Six Out Seven (Mowry)

Skin Folk (Hopkinson)

Slapboxing with Jesus (LaValle)

slave narratives See also neo–slave narratives

Slaves (Killens)

Smith, Barbara

“Smoke, Lilies, and Jade” (Nugent)

Snakes (Young)

social realism

Soledad Brother (Jackson)

Solomon, Barbara K.

Somebody Else’s Mama (Haynes)

Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime (Cooper)

“Some Reflections on the Black Aesthetic” (Neal)

Some Soul to Keep (Cooper)

Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do (Cleage)

Song of Solomon (Morrison)

Song of the Trees (Taylor)

“Sonny’s Blues” (Baldwin)

Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light (Williams)

Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The (Johnson)

soul

Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (Neal)

Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence (ed. Wideman and Preston)

Souljah, Sister

Soul Kiss (Youngblood)

Soul on Ice (Cleaver)

Souls of Black Folk, The (Du Bois)

soundtracks

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

South Street (Bradley)

Soyinka, Wole

“Speech Sounds” (Butler)

Spielberg, Stephen

Spirits in the Street (De Veaux)

Spook Who Sat by the Door, The (Greenlee)

Spyglass Tree, The (Murray)

Stagolee

Stagolee Shot Billy (Brown)

Standley, Fred

Standley, Nancy

Starlight Passage (Bunkley)

State of Independence, A (Phillips)

Steiner, K. Leslie. See Delany, Samuel R.

Stepford, Ann Folwell

Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature (Powell)

Steppin’ Out with Attitude: Sister, Sell Your Dream! (Bunkley)

Stepto, Robert B.

Sterne, Laurence

Stevens, David

Stigmata (Perry)

Stomping the Blues (Murray)

Stories of John Edgar Wideman, The (Wideman)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Strads, Gundars

Street, The (Petry)

street life

Street Players (Goines)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Styron, William

sub-Saharan Africa, focus on

Such Was the Season (Major)

Suder (Everett)

Sugar Hill Gang

Sula (Morrison)

Sun, the Sea, a Touch of the Wind, The (Guy)

Sunday in June, A (Perry)

Sun Ra

Supreme Court cases

Swamp Man (Goines)

Tales and Short Stories for Black Folks (Bambara)

Talking Book trope

Taormino, Tristan

Tar Baby (Morrison)

Tarpley, Natasha

Taste of Power, A (Brown)

Tate, Claudia

Tate, Greg

Taylor, Carol

Taylor, Mildred

“Teaching Black-Eyed Susans: An Approach to the Study of Black Women Writers” (Washington)

“Tell Martha Not to Moan” (Williams)

Tell My Horse (Hurston)

Temple of My Familiar, The (Walker)

“Ten Point Platform and Program” (Newton and Seale)

terminology

Terrible Threes, The (Reed)

Terrible Twos, The (Reed)

“Textual Healing: Claiming Black Women’s Bodies, the Erotic, and Resistance in Contemporary Novels of Slavery” (Griffin)

That’s Blaxploitation! Roots of the Baadasssss ’tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury) (James)

theater companies

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)

Thelwell, Michael

Thereafter Johnnie (Heron)

There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (Forrest)

Third Life of Grange Copeland, The (Walker)

Thirteenth Amendment

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (ed. Moraga and Anzaldúa)

“This Far” (Kenan)

Thomas, Joyce Carol

Thompson, Betty Taylor

Those Bones Are Not My Child (Bambara)

Those Other People (Childress)

360 Degrees of Power (Souljah)

Through the Ivory Gate (Dove)

Thurman, Wallace

“To All Black Women, From All Black Men” (Cleaver)

toasts

Tomlinson, Robert

Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion (Kubitschek)

Toni Morrison: An Annotated Bibliography (Middleton)

Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Gates and Appiah)

Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the Apotropaic Imagination (Marks)

Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Contemporary Criticism (ed. Middleton)

Toop, David

To Reach a Dream (Heard)

“Toward a Black Feminist Criticism” (Smith)

“Toward a Definition: Black Poetry of the Sixties” (Lee)

“Tracing ‘The Look’ in the Novels of Toni Morrison” (Guerrero)

tragic mulatto narrative

Train Whistle Guitar (Murray)

Traitor to the Race (Scott)

Transition

trickster figure

“Tripping with Black Writing” (Fabio)

Tristram Shandy (Sterne)

Triton (Delany)

Trouble No More (Grooms)

Trouble the Water (Dixon)

Troy, Maria Holmgren

Trueblood, Kathryn

Tuff (Beatty)

Tulsa Riot of

Turner, Darwin T.

Turner, Nat

Tuskegee Institute

TuSmith, Bonnie

Two Wings to Veil My Face (Forrest)

Tyree, Omar Rashad

Uganda

Ugly Ways (Ansa)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)

“Unglamorous but Worthwhile Duties of the Black Revolutionary Artist, or of the Black Writer Who Simply Works and Writes, The” (Walker)

United States Navy

Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

Up from Slavery (Washington)

Ups and Downs of Carl Davis III, The (Guy)

urban realism

U.S.-Mexican War

US Organization

Valide: A Novel of the Harem (Chase-Riboud)

Vanishing Rooms (Dixon)

Van Vechten, Carl

Verdelle, A. J.

vernacular

Vesey, Denmark

Vietnam War

Village Voice

Villard, Oswald

Vines

Virginia State University

Visitation of Spirits, A (Kenan)

visual artists

vodun/voodoo/hoodoo tradition

“Voices from the Margins: Rap Music As Contemporary Cultural Production and Sexual Politics in New York City” (Corley)

Voodoo Dreams (Rhodes)

Waiting to Exhale (McMillan). See also McMillan, Terry

Wait Until the Evening (Bennett)

Wake of the Wind, The (Cooper)

Walcott, Ronald

Walker, Alice; controversy about black men; womanism and. See also Color Purple, The

Walker, David

Walker, Madame C. J.

Walker, Margaret

Walkin’ the Dog (Mosley)

Walk Me to the Distance (Everett)

Walk Through Darkness (Durham)

Wallace, Michele

Ward, Jerry W.

War on Drugs

Washington, Booker T.

Washington, Mary Helen

Water Girl (Thomas)

Water Marked (Lee)

Watershed (Everett)

Watts Riot (1965)

Way Past Cool (Mowry)

Weaver, Afaa Michael

We Can’t Breathe (Fair)

Weisenburger, Steven

Weixlmann, Joe

Welcome to Your Life: Writings for the Heart of Young America (ed. Haynes and Landsman)

Wells-Barnett, Ida B.

West, Emily

West African religions

Western genre

Western Journal of Black Studies, The

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Cleage)

“What Set You From, Fool?” (Beatty)

Wheatley, Phillis

When Rocks Dance (Nunez)

When Shadows Fall (Heard)

When the Nightingale Sings (Thomas)

Which Way Is Up? (Brown)

Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (ed. Hopkinson)

White Boy Shuffle (Beatty)

White Butterfly (Mosley)

Whitehead, Colson

white liberalism

White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief: Crime Partners (Goines)

White Rat (Jones)

white supremacy

Whitman, John Egger

Who Is Angelina? (Young)

“Whole Sight: Notes on New Black Fiction” (Johnson)

Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp (Goines)

Wideman, John Edgar

Wild Embers (Bunkley)

Wilderness of Vines, A (Bennett)

WILDER (World Institute for Learning, Discussing, and Evaluating Race Relationships)

Wild Seed (Butler)

Williams, John Alfred

Williams, Robert

Williams, Sherley Anne

William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond

Wilson, Harriet

Winant, Howard

Winbush, Raymond A.

Wind Done Gone, The (Randall)

Winfrey, Oprah. See also Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club

Woldu, Gail Hilson

womanism

Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics: A Comparative Review (Allan)

Woman’s Place, A (Golden)

women authors

Women of Brewster Place, The (movie)

Women of Brewster Place, The (Naylor)

Women of Color Press

Wong, Shawn

Wood, Tiger

World of Nothing (Fair)

World War I veterans

Wright, Richard

Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora: History, Language, and Identity (Bracks)

“(W)riting The Work and Working the Rites” (Henderson)

Writin’ Is Fightin’ (Reed)

Xenogenesis Trilogy (Butler)

Yale University, James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection

Yarborough, Richard

Yardbird No. 1

Yardbird Reader

Y’Bird

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (Reed)

“‘Yellow Rose of Texas,’ The: A Different Cultural View” (Harris)

You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (Walker)

Young, Al

young-adult literature. See also juvenile literature

Youngblood, Shay

Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine (Campbell)

“Your Friendly Neighborhood Jungle” (Wideman)

youth culture

“Youth Speaks” (Locke)

“You Touch My Black Aesthetic and I’ll Touch Yours” (Mayfield)

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography (Lorde)

Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation

Zulus (Everett)