African-American literature

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INDEX

Note: Page numbers in boldface
indicate main entries.

A
Aasim, Afrika Bambaataa 3–4, 369
Abel, Elizabeth 104
Abide with Me (Harris) 8
abolition movement. See also
slavery
Boyd (Melba Joyce) in 67
Douglass (Frederick) in 144,
145–146
Equiano (Olaudah) in 171
Garnet (Henry Highland) in
196–197
Harper (Frances Ellen Watkins)
in 233
Horton (George Moses) in 255,
256
Jacobs (Harriet) in 267, 272
Stowe (Harriet Beecher) in 175
Truth (Sojourner) in 509, 510
Walker (David) in 526
abortion
Adams (Jenoyne) on 5
Ai on 7
Brooks (Gwendolyn) on 73
Everett (Percival) on 174
Hansberry (Lorraine) on 427
Hughes (Langston) on 535
Marshall (Paule) on 338
Shange (Ntozake) on 188
“About the Author” (Beatty) 38

Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed

About (Wright) 564

“Accidents” (Grooms) 217

ACS. See American Colonization

Society

Adams, Jenoyne 4–5

Addicted (Zane) 579

“Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly”

(Hammon) 225

“Address to the Nations of the

World” (DuBois) 150

“Address to the Negroes in the

State of New York, An” (Ham-

mon) 225

“Address to the Slaves of the United

States, The” (Garnet) 196–197

“Adulthood (For Claudia)”

(Giovanni) 203

Afrekete: An Anthology of Black

Lesbian Writing (McKinley and

DeLaney) 5–6

“Africa” (McKay) 48

African American Review 6–7, 148

African-American Writers (Turner)

511

“Afro-American” (Dumas) 154

“Afro-American Literary Critics:

An Introduction” (Turner) 511

“Afro Jew Fro” (McKinley) 212

“Afternoon Train” (Weaver)

536–537

After the Dance: A Walk through

Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Danti-

cat) 130

Against the Blues (Aubert) 20

agitation-propaganda (agitprop) 34

Ai 7–8

AIDS 8–10

in Brother to Brother (Hemphill)

76, 77

Cleage (Pearl Michelle) on 107

Corbin (Steven) on 119

Delany (Samuel R.) on 9, 134,

135

Dixon (Melvin) on 8, 142

Glave (Thomas) on 204

Hamer (Forrest) on 222, 223

Hardy (James Earl) on 8–9,

228–229

Harris (E. Lynn) on 8, 237, 268

Hemphill (Essex C.) on 9, 76,

241

Kincaid (Jamaica) on 303

Powell (Patricia) on 419

Riggs (Marlon) on 8

Saint (Assotto) on 442, 443

Sapphire on 450

Sherman (Charlotte Watson)

on 463

Troupe (Quincy Thomas, Jr.)

on 509

Wolfe (George) on 559

Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice

(Sinclair) 466

Ain’t I a Woman? (hooks) 251

Ain’t Suppose to Die a Natural

Death (Van Peebles) 520

Alexander, Elizabeth 142