Index 609In a Minor Chord: Three African
American Writers and Their
Search for Identity (Turner) 511
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(Jacobs) v, 266–267, 272
Indiana State University 6
Infants of the Spring (Thurman)
497–498
Inner City Miracle (Milner) 361
“Innovations” (McKay) 347
In Old Plantation Days (Dunbar)
156
In Search of Color Everywhere
(Miller) 357
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
(Walker) 525–526, 560
In Search of Satisfaction (Cooper)
118
In Spite of the Handicap (Corroth-
ers) 122, 123
Institute of Positive Education
325–326
Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus
Vassa, the African (Equiano) iv, v,
170–171
Interne, The (Thurman and Fur-
man) 498
interracial romance
Baldwin (James) on 16, 17
Butler (Octavia E.) on 85
Chesnutt (Charles W.) on 100
Coleman (Wanda) on 111
Corbin (Steven) on 119
Dickey (Eric Jerome) on 140
Gaines (Ernest) on 194–195
Gates (Henry Louis, Jr.) on 400
Harper (Frances Ellen Watkins)
on 234
Hopkins (Pauline Elizabeth)
on 253
Hughes (Langston) on 535
Smith (William Gardner) on
469, 482
In the Arms of Our Elders (Lewis)
315
In the Blood (Parks) 407
In the Blood (Phillips) 415, 416
In the Life (Beam) 241
In the Wine Time (Bullins) 82
“Into the Mainstream” (Mayfield)
341
Intuitionist, The (Whitehead) 549
Invisible Life (Harris) 236–237,
267–269
Invisible Man (Ellison) 168,
269–270
awards won by 167, 269
boxing ring scene in 83
critics on 168, 269, 301
Juneteenth (Ellison) compared
to 293
and Parks (Suzan-Lori) 408
protagonist in 22, 168, 169,
214, 269
Sambo in 446
Invisible Princes, The (Ringgold)
438
Iola Leroy, or Shadow Uplifted
(Harper) 67, 232, 234
“I Sing This Song for Our Moth-
ers” (Williams) 554
“Is It Because I Am Black?” (Cot-
ter) 123–124
Islam 23–24, 330. See also Nation
of Islam
“It Happened to Me” (Pamplin) 77
“It Is Deep” (Rodgers) 439
“It’s Comforting” (Simmons) 465
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold
Us Back (Public Enemy) 419
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
(King) 305
Ivory, Sara 343
“I Wish” (Kaufman) 296
I Wonder as I Wander (Hughes) 45,
258J
Jackson, Major 271
Jacobs, Harriet v, 272
Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl 266–267, 272
“Jailbait” (Charles) 77
Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-
Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG) 204
James, Glenroy Winston 272–273
Janeway, Harriet. See Bennett, Hal
jazz
Baldwin (James) on 16, 28, 471,
472
Barlow (George) on 37
Brown (Frank London) on 79Ellison (Ralph) on 167, 169
Fabio (Sarah Webster) on 177,
178
Fisher (Rudolph) on 115
Flowers (Arthur) on 186
Harper (Michael S.) on 234, 235
Hernton (Calvin Coolidge) on
246
Himes (Chester) on 248
Hughes (Langston) on 535
Joans (Ted) on 276–277
Kaufman (Bob) on 296
Komunyakaa (Yusef ) on 307
Marshall (Paule) on 338
McKay (Claude) on 348
Milner (Ronald) on 361
Murray (Albert) on 504
Neal (Larry) on 388, 389
Plumpp (Sterling) on 416
Reed (Ishmael) on 375, 433
Schuyler (George Samuel) on
451
Shange (Ntozake) on 459
Touré (Askia Muhammad) on
503
Troupe (Quincy Thomas, Jr.)
on 508
Van Vechten (Carl) on 522
Wilson (August) on 555
Wolfe (George) on 559
Young (Al) on 573
Jazz (Morrison) 186, 273–275, 367
“JAZZ ANATOMY” (Joans) 276
“JAZZ IS MY RELIGION” (Joans)
276–277
Jazz-Set (Milner) 361
“Jazz Singer, The” (Fuller) 76
Jedgement Day (Pawley) 410
Jeffers, Lance 275
Jefferson, Thomas 31, 32–33, 53,
545
Jelly’s Last Jam (Wolfe) 559
Jesus and Fat Tuesday and Other
Stories (McElroy) 345–346
Jewels of Aptor, The (Delany) 134
J-FLAG. See Jamaica Forum of Les-
bians, All-Sexuals, and Gays
Jitney (Wilson) 555
Joans, Ted 275–277
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Wil-
son) 556
“John Brown” (Hayden) 240