“When I Am Real” (Young) 573
“When Malindy Sings” (Dunbar)
320
“When My Brother Fell” (Hemp-
hill) 76
When Rocks Dance (Nuñez) 397
“When the Green Lies over the
Earth” (Grimké) 216
When Trees Green (Dodson) 143
White, Paulette Childress 546–547
White, Walter Francis vii, 58, 126,
383, 521, 547–548
White Boy Shuffle, The (Beatty) 38
Whitehead, Colson 548–550
White Man, Listen! (Wright) 568
White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s
Grief (Goines) 205
“White Man’s World” (Tupac) 457
“White Race and Its Heroes, The”
(Cleaver) 108, 473–474
White Rat (Jones) 287
“White Weekend: April 5th to the
9th, 1968” (Troupe) 508
Who Look at Me (Jordan) 290
Whoreson (Goines) 205
“Whose Song?” (Glave) 204
Whose Song? and Other Stories
(Glave) 203–204
Who’s Got His Own (Milner) 361
Why We Can’t Wait (King) 314
Wideman, John Edgar 58, 191,
351, 550–552
Brothers and Keepers 74–75
Philadelphia Fire 415
Wife of His Youth and Other Stories
of the Color Line, The (Chesnutt)
98, 99, 100
Wig, The (Wright) 563–564
Wilderness of Vines (Bennett) 43
“Wild Figgs and Secret Places”
(Jones) 288
Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues:
Black Women Writers on Love,
Men, and Sex (Golden) 207
Williams, John Alfred 552–553
Williams, Paulette Linda. See
Shange, Ntozake
Williams, Sherley Anne 553–555
Dessa Rose 137–138, 554
Williamson, Lisa. See Souljah, Sister
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken”
(Dumas) 153
Wilson, August 555–557, 560
Fences 181–182, 555–556
Wilson, Harriet 557
Our Nig 400–401, 557
Wind Done Gone, The (Randall)
557–558
Winds from Nowhere, The (Mi-
cheaux) 355
Winters without Snow (McElroy)
345
Wishing for Wings (Saint) 443
“Witchdoctor’s Wife Looks Toward
the New World, The” (Celestine)
94
Witherspoon (Jeffers) 275
With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life
Together (Davis and Dee) 133
“WITNESS” (Williams) 554
Wofford, Chloe Anthony. See Mor-
rison, Toni
Wolfe, George 558–560
“Woman” (Lorde) 318
Woman Called Fancy, A ( Ye r b y )
571
womanist/womanish 14, 510,
525–526, 560–561
Womanslaughter (Parker) 405
“Women, The” (Jones) 212
Women of Brewster Place, The
(Naylor) 387, 560, 561–562
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
(Wall) 230
Woods, Donald 77, 442
Woods, Vergible. See Tea Cake
Woodson, Jacqueline Amanda 562
Woodson, Lewis 53–54
Words in Mourning Time (Hayden)
239
Words of Fire: An Anthology of Af-
rican American Feminist Thought
(Guy-Shetfall) 220–221
Workin’ on the Chain Gang: Shak-
ing Off the Dead Hand of History
(Mosley) 371
Works Project Administration
(WPA) 66, 80, 259, 446, 489, 528,
566, 570–571
World and Africa, The: An Inquiry
(DuBois) 151
World is Round, The (Finney) 183
World of Ben Caldwell, The: A
Dramatized Examination of theAbsurdity of the American Dream
and Subsequent Reality 88
World of Nothing (Fair) 179, 180
World Stage Anansi Writer’s Work-
shop 132
Would I Lie to You: A Novel
(Thomas) 496
WPA. See Works Project Adminis-
tration
Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley
Randall and Broadside Press
(Boyd) 67
Wright, Charles Stevenson 562–
564
Wright, Jay 564–566
Wright, Richard 566–568
Black Boy 22, 50–51, 78, 110,
325, 364, 482, 563, 566
on Black Power 55
“Blueprint for Negro Writing”
59–60
and Ellison (Ralph) 168, 169
Gayle (Addison, Jr.) on 200
on homosexuality 212
on Jim Crow South vi, 50, 51,
66, 566
The Long Dream 414, 567
Native Son. See Native Son
(Wright)
and Smith (William Gardner)
469
Uncle Tom’s Children 51, 446,
566
and Walker (Margaret) 528–529
Wright, Sarah Elizabeth 568–569Y
Yarde, Richard 97
Yellin, Jean Fagan 266
Yellow Back Radio Broke Down
(Reed) 433
Yellow House on the Corner, The
(Dove) 147
Yerby, Frank Garvin 48, 92,
570–572
The Foxes of Harrow 190–191
“Yet Do I Marvel” (Cullen) 127
Yo! Bum Rush the Show (Public
Enemy) 419
You Don’t Miss Your Water (Eady)
164Index 625