Index 599Black Women Novelists: The Devel-
opment of a Tradition, 1892– 1976
(Christian) 103
Black Women Writers (1950–1980):
A Critical Evaluation (Evans) 173
Black World (Negro Digest) vi, 43,
49, 57–59, 192
Black Writers of America: A Com-
prehensive Anthology (Barksdale
and Kinnamon) 35, 59, 89, 197,
225
Blanche among the Talented Tenth
(Neely) 390
“Blazing Accusation” (Miller) 360
“Blessing” (Thomas) 494
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected
Poems, 1988– 2000 (Clifton) 110
Bliss, H. Bond 535
Blood Couple (Gunn) 219
Bloodlines (Gaines) 194
Bloodlinks and Sacred Places (Red-
mond) 431
Blood on the Forge (Attaway) 19
Bloodworth, The (Forrest) 189
Blount, Marcellus 143
Blue Blood (Johnson) 280–281
Blue Book for Blue Black Magical
Women (Sanchez) 448
Blue Devils of Nada, The (Murray)
376–377
Blue Eyed Black Boy (Johnson)
280–281
Blue Light (Mosley) 370
“Blue Meridian” (Toomer) 502
“Blueprint for Negro Writing”
(Wright) 59–60
blues 60–62
Baker (Houston A., Jr.) on
26–27
Baldwin (James) on 28, 62
Barlow (George) on 37
Brooks (Gwendolyn) on 73
Brown (Sterling) on 61, 80,
475, 476
Bullins (Ed) on 62
Dodson (Owen Vincent) on 144
Dumas (Henry) on 153–154
Eady (Cornelius) on 165
Ellison (Ralph) on 61, 62
Fabio (Sarah Webster) on 178
Flowers (Arthur) on 62, 186, 187
Forrest (Leon) on 62, 189
Gomez (Jewelle) on 208
Hamer (Forrest) on 223
Hernton (Calvin Coolidge) on
246
Himes (Chester) on 248
Hughes (Langston) on 61, 535
Hurston (Zora Neale) on 62
Joans (Ted) on 276
Jones (Gayl) on 62, 121, 287
Komunyakaa (Yusef ) on 307
Major (Clarence) on 327
Morrison (Toni) on 62, 409
Murray (Albert) on 376, 377,
504
Petry (Ann) on 62
Plumpp (Sterling) on 62, 416
and poetry 244–245
Reed (Ishmael) on 62
Schuyler (George Samuel) on
451
Toomer (Jean) on 502
Touré (Askia Muhammad) on
503
Walker (Alice M.) on 62
Williams (Sherley Anne) on 62,
138, 554
Wilson (August) on 62
Young (Al) on 573
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American
Literature: A Vernacular Theory
(Baker) 26–27
Blueschild Baby (Cain) 86–87
Blues Dancing (McKinney-Whet-
stone) 350
Blues for an Alabama Sky (Cleage)
106
“Blues I’m Playing, The” (Hughes)
535
Blues Narrative (Plumpp) 62
“Blues Notes” (Kaufman) 296
Blues People: Negro Music in White
America (Baraka) 33
Bluest Eye, The (Morrison) 366,
387, 450
Body and Soul (film) 355
Body Count 263
Boles, Robert 62–63
Bombingham (Grooms) 217, 218
Bonair-Agard, Roger 63
Bone, Robert A. vi–vii, 17, 71, 92,
116, 507, 511
Bone Flames (McElroy) 345Bones and Ash: A Gilda Story
(Gomez) 209
Bonner, Marita Odette 64–65, 230
Bontemps, Arna Wendell 65–67,
115, 126, 177, 186, 379, 382
Book of American Negro Poetry, The
(Johnson) 123, 158, 283–284
Book of Life (Madhubuti) 326
Book of Numbers, The (Pharr)
413–414
Boondocks, The (McGruder) vii,
346–347
Boone House Writers 128
Born Black (Parks) 406
Boss Soul (Fabio) 178
Bourbon at the Border (Cleage) 106
Boy at the Window (Dodson) 143
Boyd, Melba Joyce 67–68, 72, 492
Boykin, Keith 68–70
Boy X Man (Bullins) 83
Bradley, David 70–71
Braithwaite, William Stanley Beau-
mont 71–72, 92
Brawley, Benjamin 184
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Con-
temporary African-American Fic-
tion (McMillan) 350–351
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Danticat)
129–130
Breman, Paul 244–245
Brent, Linda. See Jacobs, Harriet
Brer Rabbit trickster tales iv, 505
“Brief Spell by the River, A” (McEl-
roy) 345–346
Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da
Funk (Wolfe) 559
“Bring the Noise” (Public Enemy)
419
Broadside Press 49, 57, 67, 72–73,
427–428, 448, 465, 492
Bronze (Johnson) 280
Brooks, Gwendolyn 73–74
in Bum Rush the Page (Medina
and Rivera) 84
on Knight (Etheridge) 306
on Madhubuti (Haki) 325, 326
Maud Martha 339–340
on Miller (May) 360
on race 291, 339, 340
on Till (Emmett) 499
Brother Hood (McDonald) 343–344
Brotherhood (Ward) 531