Index 597Banneker, Benjamin 31–33
Banneker’s New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia Almanac or Ephemeris
(Banneker) 32–33
Baraka, Amiri 33–35
in Black Arts Movement vi, vii,
34, 48, 49, 51–52, 53, 57, 90, 93
Black Fire 34, 46, 51–52, 120,
388, 565
in Bum Rush the Page (Medina
and Rivera) 84
Dutchman 160–161
in Go the Way Your Blood Beats
(Ruff ) 212
and Touré (Askia Muhammad)
503
BarbaraNeely. See Neely, Barbara
Barksdale, Richard K. 32, 35–36,
513, 526
Black Writers of America 35, 59,
89, 197, 225
Barlow, George 36–38
“Baxter’s Procrustes” (Chesnutt) 99
Bayliss, John F. 6
B-Boy Blues (Hardy) 228
B-Boy Blues series (Hardy) 8–9
“Beach Umbrella, The” (Colter)
113, 114
Beam, Joseph Fairchild 76, 241
Bearden, Romare 97
Bear for the FBI, A (Van Peebles)
520
Beatty, Paul 38–39
Beck, Robert. See Iceberg Slim
Beckham, Barry 39–40
Beckham House Publishers 40
Bedside Companions (Hemphill)
241
Before Columbus Foundation 433
Behind the Mountains (Danticat)
130
Being and Race (Johnson) 279
Bell, Bernard 141, 179, 478, 483
Belle, Felice 84
Beloved (Morrison) 40–41, 273,
367, 368
Baby Suggs in 40, 41, 409, 455,
483–484
name of plantation in 154
Paul D in 40, 41, 95, 367, 408–
409, 455
purpose of 24, 338
Sethe in 40–41, 367, 408–409,
454–455, 483, 484
trickster in 505
Belton, Don 41–43
Bennett, Gwendolyn 183, 184
Bennett, Hal 43–44
Bennett, Lerone 512
Benston, Kimberly 459
Bernard, Emily 522
Bernstein, Richard 38
Berry, S. Torriano 45
Berry, Venise T. 44–45
“Besting a Worse Case Scenario”
(Jordan) 290
Bettlecreek (Demby) 135–136
Between, The (Due) 152
Beyond the Frontier (Miller) 357
BIBR. See Black Issues Book Review
Big Bank Take Little Bank (Beatty)
38
Big Mama Stories, The (Young-
blood) 575
Big Picture (Everett) 174
Big Sea, The (Hughes) 45–46, 258
Billboard 201
Billy (French) 191, 192
“bio-criticism” 162
biracialism
Adams (Jenoyne) on 5
Belton (Don) on 42
Boles (Robert) on 62
Gordone (Charles) on 210
Hughes (Langston) on 257
Johnson (James Weldon) on
21–22
Kennedy (Adrienne) on 299
Larsen (Nella) on 310
McGruder (Aaron) on 346
Powell (Patricia) on 419
Randall (Alice) on 558
Ross (Frances) on 440
Senna (Danzy) on 454
Toomer (Jean) on 501, 502
Bird at My Window (Guy) 219
“Bird Cage, The” (White) 546
Birthday (Steptoe) 481
Black Aesthetic vi, vii, 46–47
Barksdale (Richard K.) in 35,
36, 59, 89
Bennett (Hal) in 43
Black Power and 57Black World and 58
Black Writers of America and
35, 59, 89
blues in 61–62
Bullins (Ed) in 82
Call and Response and 35, 59, 89
Fuller (Hoyt) in 192–193
Gayle (Addison, Jr.) in 46, 200
Hayden (Robert) on 72
Henderson (Stephen) in 46, 243
Hurston (Zora Neale) in 261
Knight (Etheridge) in 306
Neal (Larry) in 46, 47, 82, 388,
389
Powell (Kevin) on 418
Third World Press and 492
Black Aesthetic, The (Gayle) 46, 200
Black American Literature: Essays,
Poetry, Fiction, Drama (Turner)
47–48, 511
Black American Literature Forum.
See African American Review
Black and Conservative (Schuyler)
451
Black Arts Movement vi, vii, 48–50
Aasim (Afrika Bambaataa) in 4
Angelou (Maya) in 14
Baraka (Amiri) in vi, vii, 34, 48,
49, 51–52, 53, 57, 90, 93
Barlow (George) in 36
Black Nationalism and 53
Black Power and 46, 49, 52, 57
Black World and 57, 58
Boyd (Melba Joyce) in 67
Brooks (Gwendolyn) in 74
Bullins (Ed) in 82
Caldwell (Benjamin) in 87
Celestine (Alfred Bernard) in 93
Clifton (Lucille Sayles) on 109
Coleman (Wanda) in 110
Danner (Margaret Esse) in 128
Dumas (Henry) in 154
Evans (Mari) in 173
Fabio (Sarah Webster) in 177
Fuller (Hoyt) in 48, 192
Giovanni (Nikki) in 48, 72, 202
Guy (Rosa Cuthbert) on 219
Hayden (Robert) on 239
Hemphill (Essex C.) in 240
Henderson (David) in 242
Henderson (Stephen Evangelist)
in 244