Rivers of Eros, The (Colter) 114
RL’s Dream (Mosley) 370
“Road, The” (Johnson) 282
Road before Us, The (Saint) 442
Roberson, Mason 535
Roberts, John 505
Robinson, William H. 255, 256
Rochman, Hazel 344
Rodgers, Carolyn M. 57, 58, 438–
439, 492
Roosevelt, Eleanor 379
Rootless, The (Turpin) 514
Rope and Faggot: A Biography of
Judge Lynch (White) 548
Ross, Frances Delores 439–441
Roucher, Nancy 438
Roumain, Jacques 391
Rowell, Charles H. 88, 89, 136,
455–456, 461
Ruff, Shawn Stewart 212
“Ruise” (Williams) 554
“Ruminations of Luke Johnson”
(Brown) 475–476
“Runagate Runagate” (Hayden) 238
Runner Mack (Beckham) 39
“Running Man” (Eady) 165
“Running of the Bulls, The”
(Finney) 183
Rux, Carl Hancock 84
S
“Sacrifice” (Stanford) 76
“Safe Harbour” (Frechette) 77
Saint, Assotto 442–443
Saint James, Synthia 444
Salaam, Kalamu ya 444–445
Sally Hemings (Chase-Riboud)
97–98
Salt Eaters, The (Bambara) 31
Salt Roads, The (Hopkinson) 254
Sambo 317, 445–447
Samuels, Wilfred 479
Sanchez, Sonia 48, 49, 52, 57, 58,
83, 93, 447–449, 503
Sanctified Church, The: The Folklore
Writings of Zora Neale Hurston
(Hurston) 260
“Sanctuary” (Larsen) 309
Sapphire 6, 212, 449–450
Satisfy My Soul (Channer) 96
Savage Holiday (Wright) 567
Savage Seven (gang) 3
Say A Little Prayer (Harris) 237
Scarecrow (Hernton) 246
“Scarlet Letter, Revisited, The:
A Very Different AIDS Story”
(Burrell) 77
Scholes, Robert 215
School Daze (film) 311
Schulberg, Budd (Wilson) 534
Schuyler, George Samuel 450–452,
535
Black No More 54–55, 451–452
science fiction
by Butler (Octavia) 303, 402
by Delany (Samuel R.) 134–135
by Due (Tananarive) 152
by Gomez (Jewelle) 208
by Hopkinson (Nalo) 254
by Mosley (Walter) 370
by Schuyler (George Samuel)
451
SCLC. See Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
Scott-Heron, Gil 452–454
Scottsboro case 66, 257
Scottsboro Limited (Hughes) 257
Scratches (Miller) 359
Sea Birds Are Still Alive, The (Bam-
bara) 31
2nd Time Around (Hardy) 228
segregation 104
Selah’s Bed (Adams) 5
Semmes, Clovis E. 58
Senghor, Lèopold Sèdar 391
Senna, Danzy 454
Sent for You Yesterday (Wideman)
551
Seraph on the Suwanee (Hurston)
259, 260
Sethe 40–41, 367, 408–409, 454–
455, 483, 484
Seven Guitars (Wilson) 556
“Seven Principles of Blackness”
294–295
Sex and Racism in America (Hern-
ton) 247
Sex Chronicles, The: Shattering the
Myth (Zane) 579
sexual abuse
Adams (Jenoyne) on 5
Angelou (Maya) on 265, 266
Baldwin (James) on 211Belton (Don) on 42
Butler (Octavia E.) on 303–304
Cleaver (Eldridge) on 474
Delany (Samuel R.) on 456
Glave (Thomas) on 204
Goines (Donald) on 205
Harris (E. Lynn) on 237
Hopkinson (Nalo) on 254
Johnson (Georgia Douglas) on
280
Jones (Gayl) on 121, 286, 287
McElroy (Colleen Johnson) on
346
Mosley (Walter) on 139
Sapphire on 450
Shange (Ntozake) on 188
Walker (Alice M.) on 94, 112
Wright (Richard) on 385
Zane on 579
Sexual Healing (Nelson) 393
Sexual Mountain and Black Women
Writers, The: Adventures in Sex,
Literature, and Real Life (Hern-
ton) 246–247
Shabazz, Betty (Sanders) 24
Shabazz, El-Hajj Malik El. See Mal-
colm X
Shade: An Anthology of Fiction
by Gay Men of African Descent
(Morrow and Rowell) 455–456
“Shades” (Lewis) 315
Shaft (film) 406
Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery
(Youngblood) 575
Shakur, Tupac 162, 423, 456–458
Shange, Ntozake 289, 458–460
for colored girls who have consid-
ered suicide/when the rainbow
is enuf 188–189, 458, 459
Shannon (Parks) 406
Shante, Roxanne 460
Shapiro, Karl 500
Sheffey, Asa Bundy. See Hayden,
Robert Earl
Shepherd, Reginald 456, 460–462
“Sheriff ’s Children, The” (Ches-
nutt) 100
Sherman, Charlotte Watson
463–464
She’s Gotta Have It (film) 311
“Shine and the Titanic” (Flowers)
187Index 619