African-American literature

Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and FRANCES W. E. HARPER and the contemporary feminist writings of Barbara Smith, BELL HOOKS, An ...

Index 599 Black Women Novelists: The Devel- opment of a Tradition, 1892– 1976 (Christian) 103 Black Women Writers (1950–1980): A ...

222  H Hamer, Forrest (1956– ) Prize-winning poet, literary critic, and practicing psychologist Forrest Hamer was born on Augu ...

600 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature Brothers and Keepers (Wideman) 74–75, 550 Brother to Brother: New Writings by Bl ...

Reviewers Association Award, makes of its title multiple metaphors, among them the ear as the organ of sentience (“a man goes de ...

Index 601 Davis (Ossie) on 420 Due (Tananarive) on 152 Dumas (Henry) in 153 Gaines (Ernest) on 24, 105, 195 Gayle (Addison, Jr.) ...

parents and other family members, who were also storytellers. As a child, Hamilton’s maternal grandfather, Levi Perry, escaped f ...

602 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature on Nigger Heaven (Van Vech- ten) 522 Opportunity compared to 399 Crooks, Lesane ...

available records, he remained the property of sev- eral generations of Lloyds. According to Vincent Carretta, Hammon served his ...

Index 603 Dixon, Melvin 8, 142–143 Dixon, Thomas, Jr. 99, 125, 215 DJ Terminator X 419 Dodson, Owen Vincent 143–144 “Does Your M ...

the likes of Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley. “An Evening Thought” can be seen as “a demon- stration of Jupiter Hammon’s rel ...

604 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature Invisible Man. See Invisible Man (Ellison) Juneteenth 169, 292–293 and Murray (A ...

problems. In 1952 she became an associate editor, taught classes at the Frederick Douglass School, and traveled extensively. Tha ...

Index 605 Finney, Nikky 182–183 Fire!! 183–185, 230, 257, 397, 470, 497 Fire in the Flint, The (White) 548 “Fire Next Time, The” ...

Carter, Steven R., and Helen Maclam. “Inter-ethnic Issues in Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brunstein’s Window.” Explor ...

606 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature Glave, Thomas 88, 203–204, 442 Gloster, Hugh M. 112 Glyph (Everett) 174 “Godfath ...

graphic and torrid depictions of gay street life the use of crack cocaine, a profound, irreversible influence on hip-hop culture ...

Index 607 Opportunity and 399 Powell (Kevin) on 418 Redding (Jay Saunders) on 430 Schuyler (George Samuel) on 54, 451, 452 Thurm ...

people” (378). DuBois, who also advanced a theory of the “Talented Tenth,” members of the black ar- istocracy who would, through ...

608 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature Gomez (Jewelle) on 208, 209 in Go the Way Your Blood Beats (Ruff ) 212 in The Gr ...