Index 613I Wonder as I Wander (Hughes)
258
Journey to Africa (Fuller) 192
A Man Called White (White)
547, 548
Manchild in the Promised Land
(Brown) 78, 333–334
Migrations of the Heart
(Golden) 206
The Motion of Light in Wate
(Delany) 135
My Life of Absurdity (Himes)
263
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, An American Slave,
Written by Himself (Douglass)
381–382
Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin)
175
One More River to Cross
(Boykin) 69
Parallel Time: Growing Up in
Black and White (Staples) 480
by Parks (Gordon) 406
Patches (French) 191
Pimp (Iceberg Slim) 262
Project Girl (McDonald) 343
Song in a Weary Throat (Mur-
ray) 379
South to a Very Old Place (Mur-
ray) 377
The Story of My Life and Work
(Washington) 516, 532
Sweet Summer (Campbell) 90
Talking to Faith Ringgold (Ring-
gold, Freeman and Roucher)
438
This Is My Country Too (Wil-
liams) 552
Times Square Red, Times Square
Blue (Delany) 135
Trespassing: My Sojourn in the
Halls of Privilege (Parker)
403–404
Up from Slavery (Washington)
516, 532–533
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic
Negro Experience (Nelson)
393
With Ossie and Ruby (Davis and
Dee) 133
“Memorial” (Sanchez) 447
“Memphis Blues” (Brown) 476
Men of Brewster Place, The (Naylor)
387
Mercer, Kobena 77
Meredith, James 55
Meridian (Walker) 105
“Message, The” (rap song) 90
“Message to the Grass Roots” (Mal-
colm X) 331
Messenger, The 183, 353–354, 451,
497, 563
Meteor in the Madhouse (Forrest)
190
Mexico City Poems, The (Bennett)
43
Miami Herald, The 152
Micheaux, Oscar 354–355
Micklem, Sarah 92
Middle Ear (Hamer) 222–223
“Middle Passage” (Hayden) 238–
239, 565
Middle Passage (Johnson) 278,
279, 356–357
Midnight Robber (Hopkinson)
254, 505
“Midway” (Madgett) 324
Migrations of the Heart: A Personal
Odyssey (Golden) 206
Militant Preacher (Caldwell) 87
Milking Black Bull (Saint) 443
Milk in My Coffee (Dickey) 140
Miller, Alan 76
Miller, Eugene Ethelbert 36, 52,
357–358
Miller, James 43
Miller, May 358–360
Milner, Ronald 360–362
minstrels 445–446
Miracle Everyday, A: Triumph and
Transformation in the Lives of
Single Mothers (Golden) 207
Miracle’s Boys (Woodson) 562
Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Party 105
Mitchell, Loften 362–363
Mitchell, Margaree King 363–364
Mitchell, Margaret 557–558
MMI. See Muslim Mosque Incor-
porated
Modern Language Association of
America 26, 36, 490
Moglen, Helen 104Mojo: Conjure Stories (Hopkinson)
254
Montage on a Dream Deferred
(Hughes) 553
Montgomery bus boycott 104, 304
Montgomery Improvement Asso-
ciation 304
Montgomery’s Children (Perry) 410
Moody, Anne 364–366, 499
Moore, Alice Ruth. See Dunbar-
Nelson, Alice
Moraga, Cherríe 493
Morales, Rosario 493
Morrison, Toni 366–368
Beloved. See Beloved (Morrison)
The Bluest Eye 366, 387, 450
and Brown (Claude) 78
and Forrest (Leon) 189
Jazz 186, 273–275, 367
and Sapphire 450
on slavery 8, 40–41, 367, 408–
409, 454–455, 484, 485
Sula 366–367, 484–486
Tar Baby 31, 367, 368, 505
Morrow, Bruce 455–456
Morrow, Tracy. See Ice-T
Mos Def 368–369, 407
Moses, Man of the Mountain (Hur-
ston) 260
Moslem Mosque, Inc. See Muslim
Mosque Incorporated
Mosley, Walter 369–371
Devil in a Blue Dress 138–140
Mosquito (Jones) 288
Most Way Home (Young) 574
“mother, the” (Brooks) 73
“Motherhood” (Johnson) 281
Mother Love (Dove) 147
mothers. See also fathers
Adams (Jenoyne) on 5
Angelou (Maya) on 14, 265, 266
Ansa (Tina McElroy) on 18
Baldwin (James) on 211
Beckham (Barry) on 39
Brooks (Gwendolyn) on 339,
340
Brown (Claude) on 334
Bullins (Ed) on 83
Cain (George) on 86
Campbell (Bebe Moore) on 91
Chesnutt (Charles W.) on 100,
117