602 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
on Nigger Heaven (Van Vech-
ten) 522
Opportunity compared to 399
Crooks, Lesane Parish. See Shakur,
Tupac
“Crossroads” (Hamer) 223
Crouch, Stanley 88
Cruelty (Ai) 7
Crummell, Alexander 54
Crusade for Justice (Wells-Barnett)
538, 539
“CUBA: A LOVESONG!” (Touré)
503
Cuffee, Paul 53
Cullen, Countee 126–127
and Bontemps (Arna Wendell)
66, 115, 186
Caroling Dusk 127, 216, 280
on Fire!! 184
on Nigger Heaven (Van Vech-
ten) 395
Turner (Darwin T.) on 511
and Van Vechten (Carl) 521
Cunningham, Beunyce Rayford 361
“Curator, The” (Tolson) 500
Curling (Boles) 62–63
Cushman, Stephen 147
Cuthbert, Rosa. See Guy, Rosa
Cuthbert
Cutting Lisa (Everett) 174
CyberDrum 445
D
“Daddy Lied” (Buchanan) 76
Dahomean, The (Yerby) 571–572
Damas, Leon 391, 392
Damballah (Wideman) 74–75, 551
Dana Owens Album, The (Queen
Latifah) 423
“Dance for Militant Dilettantes, A”
(Young) 573
“Dance of Revolution, The” (Jor-
dan) 290
Dancers on the Shore (Kelley) 296
“Dancing All Alone” (Young)
572–573
Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ring-
gold’s French Collection and Other
Quilt Stories (Ringgold) 438
Danner, Margaret Esse 128–129
Danticat, Edwidge 53, 129–130
Dark and Feeling, The (Major) 328
Dark and Splendid Mass, A (Evans)
173
Darker Face of the Earth, The: A
Verse Play in Fourteen Scenes
(Dove) 148
Darkness at Ingraham’s Crest, A
(Yerby) 572
“Dark Symphony” (Tolson) 499
Dark Testament and Other Poems
(Murray) 379
“Darryl Strawberry Asleep in a
Field of Dreams” (Beatty) 38
Dash, Julie 130–131
Datcher, Michael 5, 131–132
Daughters (Marshall) 338
Daughters of the Dust (film) 131
Davis, Arthur P. 482–483
Cavalcade 91–92, 359
The Negro Caravan 80, 91, 124,
392–393
Davis, Miles 508
Davis, Ossie 53, 132–134
Purlie Victorious 133, 420–421
Davis, Robert 500
Dawnsong! (Touré) 503
Day Eazy-E Died, The (Hardy)
8–9, 228–229
Day Late and A Dollar Short, A
(McMillan) 352
Day of Absence (Ward) 531
Deadly Triplets (Kennedy) 299
Dear John, Dear Coltrane (Harper)
235
“Dear Mama” (Tupac) 457
Death as History (Wright) 565
“Death of a Rag Doll” (Attaway) 19
Death of the Last Black Man in the
Whole Entire World, The (Parks)
407
“De Carvin” (Corrothers) 122
“Declaration of the Rights of
Negro Peoples of the World”
(Garvey) 198
Dee, Ruby 132–133, 134
Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions
(Morrison) 31
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in
the 90s (Nuñez) 397–398
“definition for blk/children” (San-
chez) 448
DeLaney, L. Joyce 5–6Delany, Martin R. 54
Delany, Samuel R. 9, 134–135, 455,
456
delineators 445–446
dem (Kelley) 297
Demby, William 135–136
De Mojo Blues (Flowers) 187
Derricotte, Toi 92, 136–137
“Deserted Schoolhouse, The” (Cor-
rothers) 122
“Desire and the Slave Trade”
(Shepherd) 462
Dessa Rose (Williams) 137–138,
554
detective novels
by Fisher (Rudolph) 114–115,
186
by Himes (Chester) 248–249
by Mosley (Walter) 138–140,
369–370
by Neely (Barbara) 389–390
by Reed (Ishmael) 375, 434, 505
by Scott-Heron (Gil) 453
Devil in a Blue Dress (Mosley)
138–140, 370
Devotees in the Garden of Love
(Parks) 407
Dew Breaker, The (Danticat) 130
Dhalgren (Delany) 135
dialect poetry 80, 122–123, 154,
155, 233, 320, 347, 477
“Dialogue Entitled the Kind Master
and the Dutiful Slave, A” (Ham-
mon) 225
Diary of an African Nun (film) 131
Dickey, Eric Jerome 140
Dictionary of Afro American Slang
(Major) 328
“Did You Know Tomorrow”
(Thomas) 494
Different Drummer, A (Kelley)
141–142, 296–297
“Different Strokes Bar, San Fran-
cisco, The” (Hamer) 223
Dion, Alioune 392
Dirty Bird Blues (Major) 327
Disappearing Acts (McMillan) 351
“Dissimulations” (Weeks) 212
“Distant Drum, The” (Hernton)
246
Divine Comedy (Dodson) 143
Divine Days (Forrest) 189–190