620 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Signifying Monkey, The: A Theory
of African-American Literary
Criticism (Gates) 199, 200, 375,
464–465, 506
Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,
The (Hansberry) 227
SILENCE (Datcher) 132
Simmons, Judy Dothard 465–466
Simmons, Roy 77–78
Simon, John 188
Sin (Ai) 7
Sinclair, April 466–467
Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’
Merry like Christmas (Angelou)
14
Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat (Al-
exander) 11
Singing in the Comeback Choir
(Campbell) 91
“Sioux, The” (Angelou) 13
‘Sippi (Killens) 301
“Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny” (Ches-
nutt) 116
“Sisters in Arms” (Lorde) 318
Sister X and the Victims of Foul Play
(Polite) 417
Skin Folk (Hopkinson) 254
Slade, Leonard, Jr. 467–468
Slave, The (Baraka) 33
“Slave Mother, The” (Harper) 233
“Slave on the Block” (Hughes) 535
slavery. See also abolition move-
ment
Angelou (Maya) on 14
Baraka (Amiri) on 33–34, 161
Barlow (George) on 37
Bradley (David) on 70
Butler (Octavia E.) on 303–304
Chesnutt (Charles W.) on 99–
100, 116–117
Cooper (J. California) on 118
Davis (Ossie) on 420
Derricotte (Toi) on 137
Douglass (Frederick) on v, 8,
144, 145–146, 381–382
Dove (Rita Frances) on 147, 148
DuBois (W. E. B.) on v, 423
Due (Tananarive) on 152
Dunbar (Paul Laurence) on
477
Equiano (Olaudah) on v, 8,
170–171
Fair (Ronald) on 179
Finney (Nikky) on 183
Gaines (Ernest) on 24, 195
Garnet (Henry Highland) on
196–197
Gates (Henry Louis, Jr.) on 400
Gomez (Jewelle) on 208
Hammon (Jupiter) on 225
Harper (Frances Ellen Watkins)
on 234
Hayden (Robert Earl) on 29,
37, 238–239
Hopkins (Pauline Elizabeth)
on 253
Hopkinson (Nalo) on 254
Horton (George Moses) on
255, 256
Hurston (Zora Neale) on 490
Jacobs (Harriet) on v, 266–267,
272
Johnson (Charles) on 8, 356
Jones (Edward P.) on 286
Jones (Gayl) on 121, 286, 287
Lester (Julius) in 312
and Mammies 332–333
Morrison (Toni) on 8, 40–41,
367, 408–409, 454–455, 484,
485
Murray (Pauli) on 379
Naylor (Gloria) on 331
Parker (Gwendolyn M.) on 403
Randall (Alice) on 558
Reed (Ishmael) on 434
Ringgold (Faith) on 438
Schuyler (George Samuel) on
452
Tademy (Lalita) on 487
in testifying 489
Toomer (Jean) on 502
and trickster figures 505
Troupe (Quincy Thomas, Jr.)
on 508
Truth (Sojourner) on 510
Walker (Alice M.) on 94,
112–113
Walker (David) on 526, 527
Walker (Margaret) on 291–292,
529
Washington (Booker T.) on
516–517, 532
Wideman (John Edgar) on 415,
551Williams (Sherley Anne) on
137–138, 554
“Slavery” (Horton) 255, 256
“Slave’s complaint, The” (Horton)
256
Slaves Today: A Story of Liberia
(Schuyler) 451
Sleep Deprivation Chamber (Ken-
nedy) 299
Sleeping with the Dictionary (Mul-
len) 374
Small Gathering of Bones, A (Pow-
ell) 418, 419
Small Place, A (Kincaid) 302
Small Talk at 125th and Lenox Av-
enue (Scott-Heron) 453
Smith, Charles Michael 470
Smith, Dante Terrell (Beze). See
Mos Def
Smith, Lucy 568, 569
Smith, Sidone 23, 78, 108, 334, 474
Smith, Susan 164–165
Smith, William Gardner 469–470
The Stone Face 469, 482
Smitherman, Geneva 479
“Smoke, Lilies and Jade” (Nugent)
212, 397, 470–471
Snake-Back Solos: Selected Poems
1969 – 1977 (Troupe) 508
Snakes (Young) 573
SNCC. See Student Nonviolent Co-
ordinating Committee
Snellings, Roland. See Touré, Askia
Muhammad
Society of Umbra 242, 246, 495,
503
So Good (Berry) 44
Sojourner Truth (Miller) 359
Soldier (Jordan) 289
“Soldier’s Excuse, The” (Corroth-
ers) 122
“Solo Song: For Doc” (McPherson)
353
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
(Cooper) 118
Some of Us Did Not Die (Jordan)
291
Some One Sweet Angel Chile (Wil-
liams) 554
“Some Queries about Negro Amer-
ican Literature” (Lowry) 6
Some Soul to Keep (Cooper) 118