Trotter, Monroe 532
Trotter, William M. 383
Trouble in Mind (Childress) 102
Trouble No More (Grooms) 217,
218
Trouble the Water (Dixon) 142–
143
Troupe, Quincy Thomas, Jr.
507–509
True American, The: A Folk Fable
(Van Peebles) 520
“True Confessions: A Discourse on
Images of Black Male Sexuality”
(Julien and Mercer) 77
Trumbull Park (Brown) 79
Truth, Sojourner 509–510
“Truth, The” (Joans) 276
“Tu Do Street” (Komunyakaa) 307
Tuff (Beatty) 38
Tumbling (McKinney-Whetstone)
349–350
“Tuning, The” (Hamer) 223
Turner, Darwin T. 511–512
on Baraka (Amiri) 34
on Black Aesthetic 47
Black American Literature
47–48, 511
Bone (Robert) on vii
on Caldwell (Benjamin) 88
on Dodson (Owen Vincent)
143
on Dunbar (Paul Laurence)
321
and Fabio (Sarah Webster) 177
on Horton (George Moses)
255
on Hurston (Zora Neale) 160
on Miller (May) 359
on Peterson (Louis Stamford,
Jr.) 411
on Redding (Jay Saunders) 430
Turner, Nat 37, 512–513
Turning South Again (Baker) 27
Turning the Wheel: Essays on Bud-
dhism and Writing (Johnson) 279
Turpin, Waters E. 513–514
12 Million Black Voices: A Folk His-
tory of the Negro in the United
States (Wright) 567
“Twilight at the Equator” (Man-
rique) 455–456
Twists and Turns (McDonald) 343
Two Cities (Wideman) 415
Two-Headed Woman (Clifton) 109
2 Love Raps (Rodgers) 438
“Two Offers” (Harper) 233
2PAC. See Shakur, Tupac
2Pacalypse Now (Tupac) 456
Two Trains Running (Wilson) 556
Two Wings to Veil My Face (For-
rest) 189
“Typewriter, The” (West) 541
Tyree, Omar 514–515U
Ug l y Way s (Ansa) 18
Ujamaa 294
Ujima 294
Umbra 432
Umbra Poetry Group. See Society
of Umbra
Umoja 294
Uncalled, The (Dunbar) 156
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop (Mitchell)
363
Uncle Tom 87, 156, 169, 214, 317,
384, 445–447, 477
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe) 175,
272, 384, 446–447, 477
Uncle Tom’s Children (Wright) 51,
446, 566
Underground Railroad 145, 224,
233, 292
Understanding the New Black Po-
etry (Henderson) 46, 244, 276
Understand This (Tervalon)
488–489
“Under the Bridge” (Hurston)
260–261
United Slaves Organization 294
Universal Negro Improvement As-
sociation (UNIA) 3, 22, 54, 150,
197–198, 230, 329, 530
Up from Slavery (Washington)
516–518, 532–533
Uplift the Race: The Construction
of School Daze (Lee and Jones)
311
“Uprising” (James) 273
Uptown (Steptoe) 481
Urban League 133Urban Transition: Loose Blooms
(Milner) 361
“Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as
Power” (Lorde) 577
Us Organization 110
UTFO 460V
vampire novel 208
Van Doren, Mark 29, 30
Vanishing Rooms (Dixon) 143
Van Peebles, Melvin 519–521
Van Vechten, Carl 45, 66, 186, 231,
521–523
Nigger Heaven 45, 115, 231,
348, 395–396, 521, 522
Vassa, Gustavus. See Equiano,
Olaudah
Vega Press 443
Ve n u s (Parks) 407, 408
“Verbal Mugging” (Beatty) 38
Vertical Rainbow Climber (Alexan-
der) 10
Vice: New and Selected Poems (Ai)
7–8
violence. See also domestic vio-
lence; sexual abuse
Ai on 7
Allen (Jeffery Renard) on 12
Angelou (Maya) on 265
Baraka (Amiri) on 161
Brown (Claude) on 334
Brown (Frank London) on 79
Butler (Octavia) on 402
Cain (George) on 86
Campbell (Bebe Moore) on
90–91
Chesnutt (Charles W.) on 99,
100
Cleaver (Eldridge) on 474
Davis (Ossie) on 133
Derricotte (Toi) on 137
Dixon (Melvin) on 143
French (Albert) on 191
Giovanni (Nikki) on 202, 203
Goines (Donald) on 205
Hansberry (Lorraine) on 426
Himes (Chester) on 264
Hopkinson (Nalo) on 254
Hughes (Langston) on 535Index 623