600 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Brothers and Keepers (Wideman)
74–75, 550
Brother to Brother: New Writings
by Black Gay Men (Hemphill)
75–78, 241
Brown, Claude 78–79
Manchild in the Promised Land
12, 78, 333–334
Brown, Frank London 79
Brown, Jennifer 562
Brown, John 146, 196
Brown, Sterling Allen 61, 79–81,
186, 357
The Negro Caravan 80, 91, 124,
392–393
Southern Road 80, 475–477
Brown, Wesley 187
Brown Girl, Brownstones (Marshall)
81, 336, 337
Brown Girl in the Ring (Hopkin-
son) 254
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
(Thomas) 494
Brownies Book, The (NAACP) 180,
309
Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka v–vi, 104, 249, 301, 362,
383, 494
“Bruce Nugent: Bohemian of the
Harlem Renaissance” (Smith) 470
Bruised Hibiscus (Nuñez) 397
Brutal Imagination (Eady) 164–165
Buchanan, Rory 76
“Building” (Brooks) 84
Bullins, Ed 52, 81–83, 405
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry
Jam (Medina and Rivera) 83–84
Burke, Valenza Pauline. See Mar-
shall, Paule
Burrell, Walter Rico 77
Burroughs, Margaret 72, 428
Burst of Light (Lorde) 319, 577–578
“Bury Me in a Free Land” (Harper)
233
Butler, Octavia E. 52, 84–85
Kindred 85, 303–304
Parable of the Sower 85, 402–403
C
Cade, Mitona Mirkin. See Bam-
bara, Toni Cade
Cain, George 86–87
Caldwell, Benjamin 87–88
Caleb, the Degenerate (Cotter) 124,
125
“Caledonia” (McElroy) 345
Callahan, John 292–293
Callaloo: A Journal of African
American Diaspora Art and Letters
43, 88–89, 148
Call and Response (Hamer) 222
Call and Response: The Riverside
Anthology of the African American
Literary Tradition (Hill) 35, 59,
80, 89–90, 302
Cambridge, Godfrey 210
Campbell, Bebe Moore 90–91
What You Owe Me 91, 542–543
“Canary” (Dove) 147
Cancer Journals, The (Lorde) 319,
577–578
Cane (Toomer) 71, 501–502, 507,
511, 530, 550
Cane River (Tademy) 487
Capers, Bennett 456
Captivity (Derricotte) 137
Carlisle, Theodora 148
Carmichael, Stokely 55–57
Carnival (Attaway) 19
Caroling Dusk (Cullen) 127, 216,
280
Carretta, Vincent 170–171
Catacombs, The (Demby) 136
Catherine Carmier (Gaines) 194,
195
“Catholic, The” (Angelou) 13
Caucasia (Senna) 454
Cavalcade: Negro American Writing
from 1760 to the Present (Davis
and Redding) 91–92, 359
Cave Canem 92–93
“Celebrity Slaveship” (Wolfe) 559
Celestine, Alfred Bernard 93–94
Celie 94–95, 112–113
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
(Hemphill) 241
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
(Elder) 165–166
Challenge (West) 19
Chandler, Gladstone Lewis 112
Chaneysville Incident, The (Brad-
ley) 70
Change of Territory (Dixon) 142Channer, Colin 95–96
Chant of Saints (Harper and
Stepto) 96–97
Chapman, Maria W. 197
Charade on East Fourth Street
(Elder) 165
Charles, Don 76, 77
“Charlie Christian Story, The” (El-
lison) 169
Chase-Riboud, Barbara 97–98
Chauncey, Rudolph John. See
Fisher, Rudolph
Checkmate (Milner) 361
Chesnutt, Charles W. 71, 98–101
The Conjure Woman and Other
Stories 98, 99–100, 115–117,
446
The Marrow of Tradition 98,
100–101, 335–336
Child, Lydia Maria 272
Child of Myself (Parker) 405
Children of Ham, The (Brown) 78
Childress, Alice 101–103
Chill Wind (McDonald) 343
Chinaberry Tree, The: A Novel of
American Life (Fauset) 180, 181
Choice of Weapons, A (Parks) 406
“Choir Practice” (Hamer) 222
choreopoem 188, 458, 459
Chosen Place, The Timeless People,
The (Marshall) 337
Christensen, A. M. H. 505
Christian, Barbara 81, 103–104,
242, 485, 491
Chuck D 419–420, 473
“Church Poem” (Thomas) 494
“Cinder Cone” (Hamer) 223
Cities Burning (Randall) 428
“Citre et Trans” (Delany) 456
“City of Refuge, The” (Fisher)
185–186
Civil Rights Act (1964) 304, 384
Civil Rights movement 104–106
Angelou (Maya) on 105
Baldwin (James) in 27, 105
Baraka (Amiri) in 33, 105, 161
and Black Arts Movement 49
and Black Power 55, 56
Boykin (Keith) on 69
Campbell (Bebe Moore) on
90–91
Danner (Margaret Esse) on 128