Baker, Houston A., Jr.: [20] 3-5; [21] 393-414; [22] 7, 9-12, 16-18, 23-24; [23] 41-52; [24] 85-86, 94-95; [26] 535-536, 539-540, 547-564; [40] 257-258
--Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: [21] 395, 402-403, 405-407; [26] 554-555
--Black Literature in America: [26] 552-554
--"In Dubious Battle": [26] 535-536
--Turning South Again: [40] 336
--Workings of the Spirit: [26] 560-562

Baker, Josephine: [27] 599-601

Baldwin, James: [3] 11, 26-29; [4] 56-60, 122; [5] 12-13; [6] 113-121; [7] 81, 121; [8] 231-235; [10] 83-87, 94-95; [11] 35-36, 114, 127-128; [13] 33; [14] 7, 9, 81-82; [16] 91; [19] 56-57; [20] 41, 42, 50, 449-458; [21] 365-366, 368-370, 375; [23] 505-506, 518; [25] 417-420, 753-779; [26] 425-435; [29] 557-566; [31] 295-301, 339-341; [32] 247-261, 691-705; [33] 135-148, 261-281; [35] 671-673; [36] 689-691; [38] 65, 70-71, 303, 324, 625-624; [39] 103-115; [40] 247, 251, 280, 322, 342, 486, 489-490, 553
--The Amen Corner: [10] 94-95; [25] 767, 769-770, 773-774; [31] 295-301
--Another Country: [6] 113-121; [11] 127-128; [20] 41, 453-454; [25] 756-760, 762-770, 773-774, 776-777; [33] 137-139, 261-281; [38] 65; [39] 113-114
--Blues for Mister Charlie: [11] 35-36, 114; [25] 757-759, 761, 764, 767, 774-775; [39] 115
--"Come Out the Wilderness": [20] 452-453; [25] 779
--The Devil Finds Work: [10] 84-85; [25] 768-770; [39] 105; [40] 486
--The Evidence of Things Not Seen: [25] 777
--"Exodus": [25] 776
--The Fire Next Time: [25] 756-757, 760, 767, 772
--Giovanni's Room: [20] 50; [25] 755-757, 759, 761, 763-767, 769, 771-776, 778-779; [26] 425-435; [32] 252-255; [33] 139-142; [39] 114
--Go Tell It on the Mountain: [3] 11; [4] 122; [10] 86, 87; [20] 50, 451-452; [25] 755-756, 758-763, 766-776; [29] 558-566; [31] 295-301
--"Going to Meet the Man": [19] 56-57; [25] 774
--Going to Meet the Man: [7] 81; [20] 452-453; [25] 758-759, 761, 765, 772, 779
--If Beale Street Could Talk: [10] 83-84, 85-87, 95; [11] 128; [20] 454-455; [25] 767-768, 770, 774, 776-777
--Just Above My Head: [20] 455-456; [25] 772-775, 779; [32] 255-258; [33] 142-147
--No Name in the Street: [25] 764, 767, 769, 776; [38] 625-626, 634; [39] 112
--Nobody Knows My Name: [25] 756-758; [38] 634
--"Notes of a Native Son": [8] 234-235
--Notes of a Native Son: [25] 755-756, 760; [38] 625, 627-633
--One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X: [25] 766; [39] 103, 105, 111
--"The Outing": [25] 773
--"Previous Condition": [3] 26-29; [25] 771, 779; [29] 561
--The Price of a Ticket: [25] 775-776
--A Rap on Race: [25] 765, 770
--"The Rockpile": [25] 773
--"Sonny's Blues": [4] 56-60; [8] 231-233; [25] 774-775, 779; [32] 691-705; [38] 65, 71
--Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone: [5] 12-13; [25] 761, 763, 765-766, 768-769, 772, 776-778
--"This Morning, This Evening, So Soon": [25] 779

Balliett, Whitney: [25] 508-510

Bambara, Toni Cade: [18] 140; [22] 37; [27] 479-493; [30] 353-365; [33] 170-172; [35] 338-340; [36] 447-459; [39] 172
--The Black Woman: [18] 140
--Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: [33] 170-172
--The Salt Eaters: [22] 370; [27] 479-493; [30] 353-365
--"Gorilla, My Love": [36] 453-458
--Gorilla, My Love: [36] 447-459
--"Maggie of the Green Bottles": [39] 172

Bandia Wali (tale): [17] 14

Bannerman, Helen: [40] 287-288, 293
--Little Black Sambo: [40] 287-288, 290, 293

Baraka, Amiri (also see Jones, LeRoi): [1] 18-19; [3] 11; [5] 3-6; [7] 89-90, 123-142; [8] 161-163, 214, 218-219; [9] 59-62; [10] 88-92; [11] 62, 109; [12] 9-10, 149; [15] 5-6; [16] 9, 43, 87-103; [17] 15-19, 27-29; [18] 13; [19] 163-166; [21] 407-409, 425-433; [24] 99-115, 216-220, 396-397, 793-795; [25] 485-496, 612-613; [26] 296-297; [27] 547; [37] 183-427; [39] 87, 107, 120, 122, 149; [40] 243, 246, 326, 355, 553
--"Answers in Progress": [37] 336-341
--Arm Yourself, Or Harm Yourself: [21] 430
--The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka: [24] 216-220, 396-397
--The Baptism: [8] 214
--"Billie": [37] 316-318
--"Black Art": [26] 296-297; [37] 299-311
--"Black Dada Nihilismus": [37] 346-349, 417-421
--Black Fire: [39] 122
--A Black Mass: [8] 161-162; [21] 428, 432
--Bloodrites: [17] 28
--Blues People: [25] 485-487, 489-496; [40] 553
--Boy and Tarzan Appear in the Clearing: [16] 101, 102
--"A Chase (Alighieri's Dream)": [7] 89-90
--"Confessions of a Former Anti-Semite": [16] 93-94
--Daggers and Javelins: [16] 88, 102
--"Dark Lady of the Sonnets": [37] 314-316
--Dutchman: [7] 123-130; [11] 62, 109; [17] 15-19; [21] 432-433; [37] 271-279; [40] 355
--Experimental Death Unit #1: [9] 59-62; [21] 429, 431; [37] 287-291
--Great Goodness of Life: [21] 430
--"Heroes Are Gang Leaders": [16] 90
--Home on the Range: [37] 282-287
--"Hunting Is Not Those Heads on the Wall": [37] 365-369
--"Hymn for Lanie Poo": [37] 379-385
--In the Tradition: [16] 92; [37] 354-361, 421-425
--"It's Nation Time": [37] 245-252
--J-E-L-L-O: [17] 16; [37] 291-296
--Junkies Are Full of (Shhh . . .): [17] 28; [21] 431
--"The Lady": [37] 318-320
--Madheart: [8] 218
--Money: A Jazz Opera: [16] 101, 102
--The Motion of History: [12] 149; [16] 101
--Police: [21] 430
--"Pressure to Grow": [16] 9
--S-1: [16] 97, 98, 101
--The Sidney Poet Heroical: [16] 94-95, 101
--Six Persons: [37] 323-327
--The Slave: [3] 11; [8] 162-163; [10] 90-91; [21] 407-409, 428-429
--Slave Ship: [21] 429-430
--"Suppose Sorrow Was a Time Machine": [37] 328-329
--The System of Dante's Hell: [7] 132-142; [16] 90, 91, 101; [19] 163-166; [24] 99-115
--Tales: [1] 18-19; [16] 90
--The Toilet: [8] 214; [11] 109; [16] 102; [40] 246
--These Bones Are Not My Child: [35] 338-340
--"When Sun Ra Gets Blue": [37] 341-343

Barksdale, Richard K.: [21] 393-414

Barnes, Alfred C.: [14] 92-93
--"The Temple": [14] 92-93

Barnes, Steven: [18] 91

Barnet, Charlie: [20] 165

Barnum, P. T.: [39] 516-518

Barrax, Gerald: [19] 132-133
--The Death of Animals and Lesser Gods: [19] 132-133

Barret, Lindon: [40] 450-451, 455

Barthes, Roland: [15] 133, 136-137, 139-140, 145-146; [23] 750-751
--Image--Music--Text: [15] 139-140, 145-146
--Mythologies: [15] 136-137, 139
--S/Z: [23] 750-751

Basie, William "Count": [20] 165, 183, 195; [21] 211-215; [25] 638-639

Bass, George H.: [2] 26-27; [25] 5-7
--The Game (film): [2] 26-27

Bass, Kingsley B., Jr.: see Bullins, Ed

Bearden, Romare: [23] 257-282; [31] 228-229
--Blue is the Smoke of War, White the Bones of Men: [23] 274-276
--"The Iliad": [23] 265-268
--"The Passion of Christ": [23] 259-262
--Two Women in a Courtyard: [23] 278-280
--Untitled: [23] 269-274

Bechet, Sidney: [20] 166, 195; [25] 639

Beckham, Barry: [13] 112-113, 116; [18] 167-168
--My Main Mother: [13] 112-113, 116
--Runner Mack: [18] 167-168

Beiderbecke, Bix: [20] 166, 183, 195

Belcher, Fannin Saffore, Jr.: [17] 38-48
--"The Place of the Negro in the Evolution of the American Theatre, 1767 to 1940": [17] 38-48

Bell, Bernard W.: [40] 263-264, 267-268, 619

Bell, Derrick: [30] 290-292

Bennett, Hal: [16] 44, 47-48; [21] 357-378
--Assassin series: [21] 371-372
--The Bank Walkers: [21] 357-360, 374-375
--Lord of Dark Places: [16] 47-48; [21] 366
--This Passionate Land: [21] 372
--"Where Are the White People": [16] 44

Benson, George: [25] 639

Beraud, Louis, and Joseph Rosny: [19] 78-79
--Adonis: [19] 78-79

Berrigan, Bunny: [20] 183

Betts, Ellen: [15] 23-24

Beveridge, Bishop William: [40] 207, 210, 214
--Private Thoughts Upon Religion: [40] 207, 214

Beverley, Trazana: [25] 121-129
--The Spirit Moves: [25] 126-127

Bibb, Henry: [21] 420-421
--Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: [21] 420-421

Bible: [40] 210-216, 286-287, 293, 724, 760, 763, 784

"Big 'Fraid and Little 'Fraid" (tale): [30] 309-311

Bigard, Leon "Barney": [20] 166, 195

Billops, Camille: [19] 3-6; [25] 395-408
--Finding Christa (film): [25] 398-402
--Older Women and Love (film): [25] 402-406
--Smoke and Blue on the Stairway to the Stars: [25] 396
--Suzanne Suzanne (film): [25] 396-398

The Birth of a Nation (film): [12] 123, 124, 125

Birth of a Race (film): [12] 124

Black American Literature Forum: [20] 3-7

Black American Theater Company: [17] 24, 26

Black Elk Speaks: [6] 49-50

Black Lightning (comics): [36] 112-116

"The Black Man and the Baloney" (tale): [3] 86-87

Black nationalism: [40] 243-244, 247-248, 251

Black Speak: [36] 213-225

Blackburn, Bob: [20] 81-95

Bland, Alden: [7] 76-77; [38] 434-436
--Behold a Cry: [7] 76-77; [38]434-436

Blanton, Catherine: [2] 34-35
--Hold Fast to Your Dream: [2] 34-35

Blayton, Betty: [19] 32-33

Bloom, Harold: [22] 13-14

Bloomfield, Michael: [20] 166, 195

Blues: [38] 239-253

Bly, Robert: [12] 3-4

Boas, Franz: [38] 400, 407-408, 417-418, 420-421, 424-426; [39] 327, 330-331, 338-339; [40] 145
--Anthropology and Modern Life: [38] 426

Bolden, Charles "Buddy": [20] 167, 195

Boles, Robert: [19] 87-88
--Curling: [19] 87-88

Bolton, Ruthie: [30] 500-502
--Gal: [30] 500-502

Bongo, Pietro: [40] 213-215

Bonham, Frank: [3] 139-140
--Durango Street: [3] 139-140

Bonner, Marita: [21] 165-183; [28] 207-208, 214-215; [32] 469-480; [38] 617-618
--Exit: An Illusion: [28] 215
--"High Stepper": [21] 169-170, 173-176
--"On the Altar": [21] 169-173; [38] 617-618
--"One True Love": [21] 169-170, 177-178
--The Pot Maker: [28] 215
--The Purple Flower: [32] 469-480
--"Reap It as You Sow It": [21] 169-170, 178-179

Bontemps, Arna: [10] 53-57; [12] 117-118; [15] 113-116; [23] 17-36; [27] 179-185; [29] 678-681; [32] 23-31; [37] 583-598
--Black Thunder: [23] 17-36; [29] 678-681; [37] 583-598
--"Boy Blue": [27] 184
--"The Cure": [27] 183
--Lonesome Boy: [32] 23-31
--Personals: [10] 56
--"A Summer Tragedy": [27] 183
--"Talk to the Music": [27] 183-184
--"Why I Returned": [27] 184

Booker, Stephen Todd: [17] 177-179; [30] 506-507
--Tug: [30] 506-507
--Waves & License: [17] 177-179

Bradford, Perry: [20] 167

Bradley, David: [29] 97-107; [30] 165-184
--The Chaneysville Incident: [29] 97-107; [30] 165-184

Brask, Ole: [25] 576-579

Brent, Linda: see Jacobs, Harriet A.

Breuer, Lee, and Bob Telson: [25] 80, 101-120
--The Gospel at Colonus: [25] 80, 101-120

Broadside Press: [17] 157, 159-160; [39] 18

Brooks, Gwendolyn: [1] 2-3; [8] 199-207; [11] 21, 32-34, 63-66; [13] 74-75; [15] 116-118; [17] 146, 160, 162, 163, 165-166; [24] 13-15, 211-213, 353-355, 390, 397, 567-573, 621; [26] 197-211; [32] 499-500; [34] 483-499; [36] 557-569; [38] 257-276; [39] 24-25, 27, 29, 133-141, 143-151
--"A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon": [39] 144
--A Street in Bronzeville: [38] 259-262; [39] 24-25, 27, 144
--Annie Allen: [38] 260, 262-263; [39] 24-25
--"Ballad of Pearl May Lee": [39] 144
--"The Ballad of Rudolph Reed": [39] 144
--The Bean Eaters: [38] 263; [39] 144
--Beckonings: [11] 63-66
--BLACKS: [24] 567-573
--"The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock": [11] 32-34; [39] 144
--"The Children of the Poor": [1] 2-3
--Family Pictures: [11] 63-66
--"Gay Chaps at the Bar": [26] 197-199, 202-211
--"In the Mecca": [8] 199-207; [38] 257, 263-276; [39] 27
--"The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till": [39] 144
--Maud Martha: [24] 621; [39] 133-141, 147
--"Negro Hero": [26] 197-202
--Report from Part One: [24] 13-15, 211-213, 353-355, 390, 397
--Riot: [36] 557-569; [39] 143-151

Brooks, Randy: [20] 167

Broonzy, William "Big Bill": [20] 167, 195

Brown, Beth: [24] 581-584
--Satin Tunnels: [24] 581-584

Brown, Claude: [5] 12; [24] 397
--Manchild in the Promised Land: [5] 12; [24] 397

Brown, Clifford: [25] 639

Brown, Elaine: [31] 367-369
--A Taste of Power: [31] 367-369

Brown, Frank London: [7] 77-79
--Trumbull Park: [7] 77-79

Brown, Gita: [31] 369-372
--Be I Whole: [31] 369-372

Brown, Henry Box: [40] 493-499, 501, 503
--Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown: [40] 494

Brown, John: [12] 110-112; [40] 503
--Slave Life in Georgia: [40] 503

Brown, Lloyd W.: [30] 320-322
--Iron City: [30] 320-322

Brown, Michael Henry: [31] 671-672
--King of Coons: [31] 671-672

Brown, Ray: [25] 639

Brown, Sandy: [20] 183

Brown, Sterling A.: [13] 90, 92; [14] 32-44; [15] 24, 39-42; [16] 19-25; [20] 327-334; [23] 89-112; [24] 449; [31] 389-453; [39] 80
--"Cabaret": [14] 38-40
--"Crossings": [20] 330-331
--"Long Track Blues": [14] 33-34
--"Ma Rainey": [14] 37; [16] 24
--"Memphis Blues": [14] 40-43
--"Negro Character as Seen by White Authors": [39] 80
--"New St. Louis Blues": [14] 35-36
--"Odyssey of Big Boy": [14] 35; [16] 21-22; [31] 394-397
--"Rent Day Blues": [14] 33
--"Riverbank Blues": [14] 32-33
--"A Son's Return: 'Oh, Didn't He Ramble' ": [15] 24
--"Southern Road": [16] 21-22
--Southern Road: [14] 32-44; [16] 19-25
--"Tin Roof Blues": [14] 34-35
--"Transfer": [16] 23
--"When De Saints Go Ma'ching Home": [14] 35; [20] 331

Brown, Wesley: [15] 48-50; [31] 169-172
--Tragic Magic: [15] 48-50
--Darktown Strutters: [31] 169-172

Brown, William Wells: [3] 8; [6] 73-74; [9] 17-18; [13] 153-154; [16] 128-131; [27] 639-654; [28] 522-525; [39] 39-52, 302, 432, 435; [40] 512, 619, 631, 687-688, 708, 757
--The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements: [39] 40-41, 47
--Clotel, or The President's Daughter: [3] 8; [9] 17-18; [27] 639-654; [39]39, 41, 43-47, 49-50, 302, 432, 435; [40] 512, 619, 631, 687, 757
--Clotelle, or The Colored Heroine. A Tale of the Southern States: [27] 647-651; [39] 39, 41, 43, 45-46, 48-49, 52
--The Drama of King Shotaway: [16] 128-131
--The Escape; or, A Leap For Freedom: [39] 89
--Narrative of William W. Brown: [6] 73-74
--The Negro In the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity: [39] 39-40, 42, 45-46, 48

Browne, Vivian: [19] 48-50

The Brownies' Book: [40] 799, 804

Brownstein, Michael: [12] 5-6

Broyard, Anatole: [40] 325

Bruce, John Edward: [37] 457-460

Brutus, Dennis: [23] 621-626
--Airs & Tributes: [23] 621-626

Bryant, Philip: [37] 477-478
--Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day: [37] 477-478

Bullins, Ed: [7] 108-112; [8] 163; [11] 109, 113-114; [13] 103-109; [17] 19, 35; [29] 524-525; [39] 120, 125
--Daddy: [13] 108-109; [33] 369-371
--The Duplex: [13] 105-106
--The Fabulous Miss Marie: [13] 107
--The Hungered One: [13] 103, 104
--In New England Winter: [13] 103-105
--In the Wine Time: [11] 109, 113-114; [13] 104; [17] 35
--It Has No Choice: [13] 104
--The Reluctant Rapist: [13] 103, 108
--We Righteous Bombers: [8] 163

"Burbanking": [40] 475-490

Burnett, Charles: [25] 323-334; [27] 21-24; [28] 319-320; [33] 299-311; [39] 213-214, 216-220, 222-228
--America Becoming (film): [25] 330-333
--My Brother's Wedding (film): [25] 326
--To Sleep with Anger (film): [25] 323-326, 329-332; [27] 21-24; [33] 299-311; [39] 213-214, 216-220, 222-228

Burns, Anthony: [34] 164-165

Burrill, Mary: [28] 207-208, 210-213; [39] 92
--Aftermath: [28] 212; [39] 92
--They That Sit in Darkness: [28] 210-211, 213

Burroughs, Edgar Rice: [18] 90, 91

Burroughs, William: [12] 6-7

Burton, Annie Louise: [15] 69
--Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days: [15] 69

Burton, Gail, and Diane Beckett: [31] 723-725
--Muses: [31] 723-725

Burton, Gary: [25] 640

Butler, Octavia E.: [18] 78-89, 91; [23] 389-396; [28] 223-235, 259-271; [38] 467-475
--Adulthood Rites: [23] 393-396
--"Bloodchild": [28] 259-271
--Clay's Ark: [18] 82
--Dawn: [23] 389-393
--Kindred: [18] 82-84, 86-87; [28] 223-235; [38] 467-75
--Mind of My Mind: [18] 78-85, 87
--Patternmaster: [18] 78-85, 87
--Survivor: [18] 78-87
--Wild Seed: [18] 78, 80-85, 87

Butts, Anthony: [35] 687
--Fifth Season: [35] 687

Bynner, Witter: [14] 94-95