African-American literature

618 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature

Everett (Percival) on 174

Fauset (Jessie Redmon) on 181

French (Albert) on 191

Fuller (Hoyt) on 192

Gaines (Ernest) on 24, 195

Gates (Henry Louis, Jr.) on 400

Goines (Donald) on 205

Greenlee (Sam) on 213–214

Grimké (Angelina Weld) on

216, 425

Guy (Rosa Cuthbert) on 220

Hayden (Robert Earl) on 29, 30

Himes (Chester) on 263–265

hooks (bell) on 251

Hopkins (Pauline Elizabeth)

on 253

Hughes (Langston) on 535

Hurston (Zora Neale) on 260

of Jefferson (Thomas) 31, 545

Johnson (Georgia Douglas) on

280

Jordan (June) on 290

Killens (John Oliver) on

300–301

King (Martin Luther, Jr.) on

304, 313–314

Lorde (Audre Geraldine) on

318, 577

Madgett (Naomi Long) on 324

Malcolm X on 22–23, 24

Marshall (Paule) on 338

McElroy (Colleen Johnson) on

346

McKay (Claude) on 232, 250

Moody (Anne) on 364–365

Morrison (Toni) on 368

Naylor (Gloria) on 387, 561

Parker (Gwendolyn M.) on

403, 404

Powell (Patricia) on 419

Reed (Ishmael) on 433

Riggs (Marlon) on 437

Schuyler (George) on 55, 451

Smith (William Gardner) on

469, 482

Thurman (Wallace) on 497

Toomer (Jean) on 502

Touré (Askia Muhammad) on

503

Van Peebles (Melvin) on 519

Van Vechten (Carl) on 396

Walker (Alice M.) on 491, 492

Walker (David) on 527

Walrond (Eric) on 506, 530

Wells-Barnett (Ida B.) on 538,

539

West (Dorothy) on 316, 541

Wheatley (Phillis) on 545

White (Walter Francis) on 547,

548

Wideman (John Edgar) on 75,

415, 550, 551

Wilson (August) on 181–182,

555, 556

Wright (Charles Stevenson)

on 563

Wright (Richard) on 385, 566,

567

Wright (Sarah Elizabeth) on

569

“Racism 101” (Giovanni) 203

Radio Golf (Wilson) 556

Raglan, Lord 269

“Rag Man, The” (Hayden) 240

Rails under My Back (Allen) 11–12

“Rain” (Thomas) 494

Rainbow Signs (Fabio) 178

Raising Fences: A Black Man’s Love

Story (Datcher) 132

Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry)

133, 166, 226, 227, 426–427, 466,

467

Rampersad, Arnold 67, 385

Randall, Alice, The Wind Done

Gone 557–558

Randall, Dudley 49, 57, 67, 72–73,

427–428, 448, 492

Randolph, A. Philip 353–354

rape. See sexual abuse

“Rationale or ‘She Drove Me Crazy,’

The” (Jordan) 290

Rat’s Mass, A (Kennedy) 299

Reading Black, Reading Feminist:

A Critical Anthology (Gates)

428–429

“Rebecca” (Miller) 358

Rebound (film) 40

Reckoning, The (Ward) 531

Recognize (Powell) 418

Redding, Jay Saunders 20, 429–431

Cavalcade 91–92, 359

Redeemer, The (Ward) 531

Redmond, Eugene B. 34, 83, 124,

144, 153, 306, 320, 431–432, 465

Reed, Ishmael 432–435

on Beatty (Paul) 38–39

and McElroy (Colleen Johnson)

345

Mumbo Jumbo 375–376, 433–

434, 505

and Wright (Charles Stevenson)

564

Reena and Other Short Stories

(Marshall) 337, 338

Reflecting Black: African-American

Cultural Criticism (Dyson) 162

“Remembrance” (McCreary) 77

Remembrances of Spring: Collected

Early Poems (Madgett) 324

“Rena Walden” (Chesnutt) 98

“Requiem for the Champ” (Jordan)

290

“Resistance Is Fertile” (Mullen) 374

“Responsibility of the Writer as

Participant in the World Com-

munity” (Wright) 569

Resurrecting Mingus (Adams) 5

“Return of the Apeman, The”

(McElroy) 346

Revere, John D. See Bennett, Hal

Revolutionary Notes (Lester) 312

“Revolution Will Not Be Televised,

The” (Scott-Heron) 452

Rhinestone Sharecropping (Gunn)

218

Rhodes, Jewell Parker 435–436

Rice (Finney) 183

Richardson, L. Phillip 455

“Richard Wright’s Blues” (Ellison)

169

“Richard Wright Was Wrong” (Jor-

dan) 290

Richer, The Poorer, The: Stories,

Sketches, and Reminiscences

(West) 542

Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography

and Identity in Afro-American Lit-

erature (Dixon) 143

Rift Poems (Hamer) 223

Riggs, Marlon 8, 241, 436–437, 442

Right Here Right Now (Ellis) 167

Ringgold, Faith 437–438

Risin’ to the Love We Need (Saint)

442

Rite of Passage (Wright) 567

Rivera, Louis Reyes 83–84