624 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Iceberg Slim on 262
Johnson (Georgia Douglas) on
280
Jones (Gayl) on 121
Komunyakaa (Yusef ) on 307
Lee (Spike) on 311
Malcolm X on 22–23
Morrison (Toni) on 40–41, 274
Mosley (Walter) on 139
Pharr (Robert Deane) on 414
Smith (William Gardner) on
482
Van Peebles (Melvin) on 519
Walker (Alice M.) on 491–492
White (Walter Francis) on 547,
548
Wideman (John Edgar) on 415
Wright (Richard) on 385
Violets and Other Tales (Dunbar-
Nelson) 157
Virginia Minstrels 446
“Visions of a Liberated Future”
(Neal) 82
Visitation of Spirits, A (Kenan) 204,
298, 523–524
Vixens, The (Yerby) 571
“Voice, The” (Dumas) 153
Voices in Harmony 5
Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiogra-
phy (Parks) 406
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic
Negro Experience (Nelson) 393
Vonnegut, Kurt 63
Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie
Laveau (Rhodes) 435
Voting Rights Act (1965) 305
Vulture, The (Scott-Heron) 453
W
Waiting in Vain (Channer) 95–96
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan) 44,
351–352
Walk Against Fear 55
Walker, Alice M. 525–526
on Cane (Toomer) 502
in Civil Rights movement 105,
525
The Color Purple 94–95,
112–113, 247, 289, 352, 525,
526, 560
on Cooper (J. California) 117
and Hurston (Zora Neale) 261,
490
The Third Life of Grange Cope-
land 491–492, 525
womanist defined by 560
Walker, David 526–528
Walker Alexander, Margaret Abigail
528–530
on Civil Rights movement
105–106, 529
and Demby (William) 135
“For Malcolm” 72
Jubilee 291–292, 529
Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival
organized by 129
Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles, to-
gether with a Preamble, to the Co-
loured Citizens of the World, but
in Particular and Very Expressly
to Those of the United States of
America, Written in Boston, State
of Massachusetts, September 28,
1829 (Walker) 526–528
Walking on Water: Black American
Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-
first Century (Kenan) 298
“Walking Parker Home”
(Kaufman) 296
Walking the Dog (Mosley) 370
“Walk in the Winter Rain, A” (Ce-
lestine) 94
Wall, Cheryl A. 230, 281
Walrond, Eric 491, 530–531
Tropic Death 506–507, 530
Ward, Douglas Turner 165,
531–532
Ward, Jerry 439, 444
Washington, Booker T. 532–534
“Atlanta Exposition Address”
90, 516, 517–518, 533
Baker (Houston A., Jr.) on 27
DuBois (W. E. B.) on 149–150,
423, 516, 532, 533
on HBCUs 249
on NAACP 383
Up from Slavery 516–518
Walrond (Eric) on 530
Washington, George 32
Washington, Mary Helen 483
Watermelon Dress, The: Portrait of a
Woman (White) 546
Watermelon Man (film) 519Watershed (Everett) 174
Watkins, Gloria Jean. See hooks,
bell
Watts Rebellion (1965) 14, 534
Watts Writers Workshop 534
Ways of White Folks, The (Hughes)
257, 535–536
“We” (Frost) 13
We A BaddDDD People (Sanchez)
448
“We Are Not Responsible” (Mul-
len) 374
Weary Blues, The (Hughes) 45,
257, 521
Weather and the Women Treat Me
Fair, The (Everett) 174
Weaver, Afaa Michael 536–537
Weber, Carl 537–538
We Can’t Breathe (Fair) 179–180
Wedding, The (West) 542
Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story
in Black and White (Childress)
102
Weeks, Orian Hyde 212
We Fished All Night (Motley) 372
Weixlmann, Joseph 6, 564
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 532, 538–540
“We Love” (Slade) 468
West, Cornel 80, 477, 540–541
West, Dorothy 19, 541–542
The Living Is Easy 315–316, 542
“We Want Our City Back” (Boyd)
68
“We Wear the Mask” (Dunbar)
156–157
“Wharf Rats, The” (Walrond) 507
What Can You Say, Mississippi?
(Davis) 133
“What do I care for Morning”
(Johnson) 282
What Looks like Crazy on an Ordi-
nary Day (Cleage) 107
What Madness Brought Me Here
(McElroy) 345
What the Wine-Sellers Buy (Milner)
361
What You Owe Me (Campbell) 91,
542–543
“Wheatherwise” (Miller) 360
Wheatley, Phillis iv–v, 47, 543–546
“When Dawn Comes to the City”
(McKay) 232