608 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Gomez (Jewelle) on 208, 209
in Go the Way Your Blood Beats
(Ruff ) 212
in The Greatest Taboo (Constan-
tine-Simms) 212–213
Hamer (Forrest) on 222, 223
Hardy (James Early) on 228–
229
Harris (E. Lynn) on 237,
267–268
Hemphill (Essex C.) on 9, 43,
76, 240–241
James (Glenroy Winston) on
273
Kenan (Randall) on 523
Neely (Letta) on 391
Nugent (Richard Bruce) on
397, 470
Phillips (Carl) on 415–416
Powell (Patricia) on 419
Riggs (Marlon) on 437
Saint (Assotto) on 442–443
in Shade (Morrow and Rowell)
455–456
Wolfe (George) on 559
Hoodoo Hollerin Bebop Ghosts
(Neal) 389
hooks, bell 131, 213, 251–252,
474
Hooks, Robert 531
Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race and
Love (Wideman) 551
Hoover, J. Edgar 353–354
Hope of Liberty (Horton) 255
Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth 252–
253
Hopkinson, Nalo 254–255, 505
Horton, George Moses 47, 255–
256
Hospice (Cleage) 106
House behind the Cedars, The
(Chesnutt) 98, 100
House on Hay (Bennett) 43
Houston, Charles Hamilton 383
Howe, Irving 269, 386
Howells, William Dean 99, 115,
155, 320, 335
how i got ovah: New and Selected
Poems (Rodgers) 438–439
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
(McMillan) 352
“How to Listen” (Jackson) 271
How We Sleep on the Nights We
Don’t Make Love (Miller) 357,
358
Hudson, Fred 534
Hue and Cry: Short Stories
(McPherson) 352, 353
Huggins, Nathan Irvin 231
Hughes, Langston James Mercer
256–259
The Big Sea 45–46, 258
in Black American Literature
(Turner) 48
in Black World 58
on blues 61, 535
and Bontemps (Arna Wendell)
65, 66
and Childress (Alice) 102
and Ellison (Ralph) 168
and Fire!! 183, 230, 257, 397,
470, 497
and Hansberry (Lorraine) 226,
426
in Harlem Renaissance 45–46,
230, 257, 258
and Himes (Chester) 248
and Hurston (Zora Neale) 45,
260
and Joans (Ted) 277
on McKay (Claude) 348
and Milner (Ronald) 360
“Mother to Son” 22, 450
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
126, 154, 256–257
and Nugent (Richard Bruce)
396, 397
on Schuyler (George Samuel)
451
and Van Vechten (Carl) 521
and Walker (Margaret) 528
The Ways of White Folks 257,
535–536
and Williams (Sherley Anne)
553
and Wright (Sarah Elizabeth)
568
Hull, Gloria T. 158, 319
“Human Heat” (Tyree) 515
Humphreys, Josephine 403
Hundred Days from Now, A
(Corbin) 119
Hunt, Richard 97
Hurry Home (Wideman) 550Hurston, Zora Neale 259–261
Dust Tracks on a Road 159–160,
260
and Fire!! 183, 230, 397, 470
in Harlem Renaissance 230,
479, 490
and Hughes (Langston) 45,
260
Mules and Men 187, 260,
372–373
“Spunk” 478–479, 559
Their Eyes Were Watching God.
See Their Eyes Were Watching
God (Hurston)
Turner (Darwin T.) on 511
Hutchinson, George 231I
I Am a Black Woman (Evans) 173
I Can’t Wait on God (French) 191
Iceberg Slim 205, 262–263
Ice Poems (Grooms) 217
Ice-T 262, 263
“Idea of Ancestry, The” (Knight)
305
Identity Crisis (film) 520
If a Bus Could Talk (Ringgold) 438
If Beale Street Could Talk (Baldwin)
28
If He Hollers Let Him Go (Himes)
248, 263–265
If Only for One Nite (Hardy) 228
“If We Must Die” (McKay) 232,
347–348, 379
If Winter Come: Collected Poems,
1967 – 1992 (Aubert) 20
“I Get Around” (Tupac) 456
I Got Somebody in Staunton
(Lewis) 315
“I Have a Dream” (King) 105, 304
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
(Angelou) 13, 14, 265–266, 364
I Left My Backdoor Open (Sinclair)
466
Illusions (film) 131
Imami 295
I May Not Get There with You
(Dyson) 161, 162
Imperceptible Mutabilities in the
Third Kingdom (Parks) 407, 408
Imperium in Imperio (Griggs) 215