Nation of Islam (NOI) 23, 330,
448, 473. See also Muhammad,
Elijah
Native Son (Wright) 231, 384–386,
566
and Attaway (William) 19
Baldwin (James) on vii, 175
and Cain (George) 87
and Fair (Ronald) 179
and French (Albert) 191
and Petry (Ann) 482
popularity of 248, 250, 386
protagonist in 264, 356, 384–
386, 566
Natural Birth (Derricotte) 137
Nature of a Sista (Queen Latifah)
422
Naylor, Gloria 386–388
Mama Day 327, 331–332, 387,
560
The Women of Brewster Place
387, 560, 561–562
NCDC. See New Concept Develop-
ment Center
Neal, Larry 388–389
in Black Aesthetic 46, 47, 82,
388, 389
in Black Arts Movement 34, 48,
51–52, 53, 57, 90, 388
Black Fire 34, 46, 51–52, 120,
388, 565
on Ellison (Ralph) 169
and Madhubuti (Haki) 326
Ned 446
Neely, Barbara 389–391
Neely, Letta 391
Negritude (la négritude) 391–392
Negro American Literature Forum.
See African American Review
“Negro-Art Hokum, The” (Schuy-
ler) 451
“Negro Artist and the Racial
Mountain, The” (Hughes) 230,
259, 451
Negro Caravan: Writings by Negro
Writers, The (Brown, Davis, and
Lee) 80, 91, 124, 392–393
“Negro Communists” (Cornish)
120–121
Negro Digest. See Black World
Negro Ensemble Company (NEC)
531
“Negro Faces America, The” (Wal-
rond) 530
Negro History in Thirteen Plays
(Miller) 359
“Negro in American Literature,
The” (Braithwaite) 72
Negro Novel in America, The
(Bone) vi, vii, 92, 511
“Negro Progress” (Grooms) 217
Negro Renaissance. See Harlem
Renaissance
“Negro Scholar, The” (Tolson) 500
“Negro Speaks of Rivers, The”
(Hughes) 126, 154, 256–257
Negro World, The 198, 230, 530
Nelson, Jill 393–394
Nelson, Raymond 500
neo-freedom narrative 40, 356
“Neo HooDoo Manifesto, The”
(Reed) 433
neo-slave narrative 24, 40, 107,
135, 195, 278, 291, 303, 331, 434,
529, 558
Nero, Charles 78
“New Black Aesthetic, The” (Ellis)
166–167
New Black Poetry (Major) 120
New Concept Development Center
(NCDC) 325–326
“New Day for Willa Mae, A” (Sap-
phire) 449–450
New Federal Theatre (NFT) 88
New Jack City (film) 263
Newman, Charles 17
“New Negro, The” (Locke) 230,
317, 394, 470
New Negro, The: An Interpretation
(Locke) 72, 97, 185, 216, 230,
317, 392, 394–395, 397, 502
New Negro Movement. See Harlem
Renaissance
New Negro Renaissance. See Har-
lem Renaissance
New Poetry Review 71
Newton, Huey P. 177
“New York City Beggar” (Troupe)
508
“New York Seizures” (Redmond)
83
Next (Clifton) 109
Nguzu Saba 294–295
Nia 294Niagara movement 150, 215, 539
Nifong, David Michael 535
“nigger” (Sanchez) 448
Nigger Factory, The (Scott-Heron)
453
Nigger Heaven (Van Vechten) 45,
115, 231, 348, 395–396, 521, 522
“Night-Blooming Cereus, The”
(Hayden) 239
Nightmare Begins Responsibility
(Harper) 235
Nilon, Charles 478
“Nobody Gets Hurt” (Capers) 456
No Day of Triumph (Redding) 430
No Disrespect (Souljah) 473
No Easy Place to Be (Corbin) 119
NOI. See Nation of Islam
“Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” (film)
442
No Place to Be Somebody, a Black
Comedy in Three Acts (Gordone)
210
North Star 145
Not a Day Goes By (Harris) 237
Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin)
175
“Notes on a Native Son” (Cleaver)
474
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jef-
ferson) 545
“Notes Toward Beauty” (Shepherd)
461
Not Without Laughter (Hughes)
257
“now poem. for us” (Sanchez) 448
“Now We Think” (Hemphill) 9
Nugent, Richard Bruce 183, 184,
230, 396–397
“Smoke, Lilies and Jade” 212,
397, 470–471
Nuñez, Elizabeth 397–398O
OA AU. See Organization for Afri-
can American Unity
Oak and Ivy (Dunbar) 155, 320
OAU. See Organization of African
Unity
OBAC. See Organization of Black
African Culture
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