Play Ebony, Play Ivory (Dumas)
153, 154
Plessy v. Ferguson 104, 249, 364,
518, 538
Ploughshares (Young) 574
Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral
(Fauset) 180, 181
Plumpp, Sterling 62, 416
“Poem (No Name No. 3)”
(Giovanni) 202
“Poem about my Rights” (Jordan)
290
“Poem about Police Violence” (Jor-
dan) 290
“Poem For ‘Magic,’ A” (Troupe)
508–509
Poems by a Slave (Horton) 255
“Poems for Malcolm” (Rodgers)
439
Poems from Prison (Knight)
305–306
Poems of Cabin and Field (Dunbar)
156, 158
Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects
(Harper) 233
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious
and Moral (Wheatley) v, 545
“Poet, The” (Dunbar) 156, 320
Poetry for My People (Dumas) 153
Poet’s World, The (Dove) 148
Pointing the Way (Griggs) 215
Police Brutality (Nelson) 393–394
Polite, Carlene Hatcher 417
Poore, Charles 386
Porter, Countee Leroy. See Cullen,
Countee
Posse (film) 520
postmodernism
of Angelou (Maya) 12
of Baldwin (James) 17
of Channer (Colin) 95
of Everett (Percival) 175
of Johnson (Charles) 278
of Reed (Ishmael) 375, 432
of Wideman (John Edgar) 415
Pot Maker, The: A Play to Be Read
(Bonner) 64
Powell, Kevin 417–418
Powell, Patricia 418–419
“Power” (Lorde) 318
Powerful Long Ladder (Dodson)
143–144
“Powers That Be” (Richardson)
455
Praisesong for the Widow (Marshall)
337, 338, 505
Praisesong of Survival: Lectures and
Essays, 1957– 1989 (Barksdale) 36
Prayer Meeting: or, the First Mili-
tant Minister (Caldwell) 87
Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide
Note (Baraka) 33
Prelude to the Blues (Mitchell) 362
“Present Crisis, The” (Lowell) 126
Primitive, The (Himes) 264
“Prisoners, The” (Hayden) 240
Procope, Lynne 63
Professor Griff 419, 420
Project Girl (McDonald) 343
Prophets for a New Day (Walker)
106, 529
Prosser, Gabriel 37
protest fiction 19, 28, 247, 248,
477–478, 571
protest poems 128, 233, 238
Proud Shoes: The Story of an Ameri-
can Family (Murray) 379
“Psalm for the Ghetto” (Stanford)
77
Public Enemy 419–420, 473
Purlie Victorious (Davis) 133,
420–421
Purple Flower, The: A Phantasy
That Had Best Be Read (Bonner)
64
Push (Sapphire) 450Q
Queen Latifah 422–423
Queen of the Ebony Isles (McElroy)
345
Quest of the Silver Fleece, The (Du-
Bois) 423–424
Quicksand (Larsen) 309, 310, 521
Quilting the Black Eyed Pea
(Giovanni) 203
“Quivira City Limits” (Young) 574R
race
Adams (Jenoyne) on 5
Attaway (William) on 19Baldwin (James) on 27, 28
Baraka (Amiri) on 160–161
Brooks (Gwendolyn) on 291,
339, 340
DuBois (W. E. B.) on 474–475
Dyson (Michael Eric) on 162
Elder (Lonne, III) on 166
Griggs (Sutton E.) on 215
Harris (E. Lynn) on 268
Hopkins (Pauline Elizabeth) on
252–253
Hurston (Zora Neale) on 160
Johnson (Helene) on 281, 282
Johnson (James Weldon) on
21, 247
Kelley (William Melvin) on
141, 297
Mosley (Walter) on 139
Neely (Barbara) on 389–390
Senna (Danzy) on 454
Van Vechten (Carl) on 396
Williams (John Alfred) on 552
“Race for Theory, The” (Christian)
103
Rac[e]ing to the Right (Schuyler)
451
Race Matters (West) 540
Race Rules: Navigating the Color
Line (Dyson) 162
Rachel (Grimké) 216, 425–426
racism
Angelou (Maya) on 14, 266
Baldwin (James) on 211
Bambara (Toni Cade) on 31
Baraka (Amiri) on 33, 34, 161
Beckham (Barry) on 39
Bradley (David) on 70
Brown (Claude) on 334
Brown (Frank London) on 79
Butler (Octavia E.) on 303
Caldwell (Benjamin) on 87
Campbell (Bebe Moore) on
90–91, 543
Chesnutt (Charles W.) on 98,
100, 335
Coleman (Wanda) on 111
Danner (Margaret Esse) on 128
Davis (Ossie) on 133
Derricotte (Toi) on 137
Dumas (Henry) on 153
Dunbar (Paul Laurence) on
320, 321Index 617