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Bailey, A. Peter, "A Look at the Contemporary Black Theatre Movement": [17] 19-21

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Barker, Deborah E., "Visual Markers: Art and Mass Media in Alice Walker's Meridian": [31] 463-479

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Barlow, William, "Black Music On Radio During the Jazz Age": [29] 325-328

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Bassard, Katherine Clay, "Gender and Genre: Black Women's Autobiography and the Ideology of Literacy": [26] 119-129

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Bergman, Jill, " 'Everything we hoped she'd be': Contending Forces in Hopkins Scholarship": [38] 181-199

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Binggeli, Elizabeth, "Burbanking Bigger and Bette the Bitch": [40] 475-492

Birnbaum, Michele, "Racial Hysteria: Female Pathology and Race Politics in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and W. D. Howell's An Imperative Duty": [33] 7-23

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Blake, Susan L., "Old John in Harlem: The Urban Folktales of Langston Hughes": [14] 100-104

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Bobo, Jacqueline, " 'The Subject is Money': Reconsidering the Black Film Audience as a Theoretical Paradigm": [25] 421-432

Bodmer, George, "Donald Crews: The Signs and Times of an American Childhood--Essay and Interview": [32] 107-117

Bolden, Tony, "All the Birds Sing Bass: The Revolutionary Blues of Jayne Cortez": [35] 61-71

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Borden, Anne, "Heroic 'Hussies' and 'Brilliant Queers': Genderracial Resistance in the Works of Langston Hughes": [28] 333-345

Borgstrom, Michael, "Face Value: Ambivalent Citizenship in Iola Leroy": [40] 779-793

Bost, Suzanne, "Fluidity without Postmodernism: Michelle Cliff and the 'Tragic Mulatta' Tradition": [32] 673-689

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Bradfield, Larry D., "Beyond Mimetic Exhaustion: The Reflex and Bone Structure Experiment": [17] 120-123

Bradley, David, "Factoring out Race: The Cultural Context of Paul Laurence Dunbar": [42] 357-366

Brady, Owen E., "Baraka's Experimental Death Unit #1: Plan for (R)evolution": [9] 59-62

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Bray, Mary Kay, "Rites of Reversal: Double Consciousness in Delany's Dhalgren": [18] 57-61

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Breau, Elizabeth, "Incest and Intertextuality in Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie": [31] 91-103

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Brickhouse, Anna, "Nella Larsen and the Intertextual Geography of Quicksand": [35] 533-560

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Britt, David, "Native Son: Watershed of Negro Protest Literature": [1] 4-5

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Brooks, Jerome, "Henry Dumas and the Tradition": [22] 178-181

Brooks, Joanna, "Prince Hall, Freemasonry, and Genealogy": [34] 197-216

Brooks, Marty, "The 'Failed Messenger' ": [22] 723-733

Brouwer, Joel R., "Repositioning: Center and Margin in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust": [29] 5-15

Brown, Abena Joan, "Developing Black Performing Arts Institutions": [ 31] 611-615

Brown, Antonio, "Performing 'truth': Black Speech Acts": [36] 213-226

Brown, Caroline, "Golden Gray and the Talking Book: Identity as a Site of Artful Construction in Toni Morrison's Jazz": [36] 629-642

Brown, E. Barnsley, "Passed Over: The Tragic Mulatta and (Dis)Integration of Identity in Adrienne Kennedy's Plays": [35] 281-295

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Brown, Jeffrey A., "Comic Book Masculinity and the New Black Superhero": [33] 25-42

Brown, Lloyd W., "The West Indian as an Ethnic Stereotype in Black American Literature": [5] 8-14
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Brown, Lorraine A., " 'For the Characters Are Myself': Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro": [9] 86-88

Brown, Stephanie, "Bourgeois Blackness and Autobiographical Authenticity: Ellen Tarry's The Third Door": [41] 557-570

Bruce, Dickson D., Jr., "James Corrothers Reads a Book; Or, The Lives of Sandy Jenkins": [26] 665-673

Bruchac, Joseph, "Third World Writing Today": [10] 60-63

Bryant, Cedric Gael, "The Orderliness of Disorder: Madness and Evil in Toni Morrison's Sula": [24] 731-745
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Bryant, Earle V., "The Sexualization of Racism in Richard Wright's 'The Man Who Killed a Shadow' ": [16] 119-121

Bullins, Ed, "Who He Is: Ed Bullins Replies": [13] 109

Burdine, Warren, "Let the Theatre Say 'Amen' ": [25] 73-82

Burke, Virginia M., "Black Literature for Whom?": [9] 25-27
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Burks, Mary Fair, "James Baldwin's Protest Novel: If Beale Street Could Talk": [10] 83-84, 85-87, 95

Bush, Ann Marie, and Louis D. Mitchell, "Jean Toomer: A Cubist Poet": [17] 106-108

Bussey, Susan Hays, "Whose Will Be Done?: Self-Determination in Pauline Hopkins's Hagar's Daughter": [39] 299-313

Butler, Robert James, "Wright's Native Son and Two Novels by Zola: A Comparative Study": [18] 100-105
--, "The Function of Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son": [20] 9-25
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Butterfield, Stephen T., "The Use of Language in the Slave Narrative": [6] 72-78

Byrd, Rudolph P., "Oxherding Tale and Siddhartha: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Emergence of a Hidden Tradition": [30] 549-558