Sack, Alfred: [12] 128-129, 130, 132-133

Said, Omar ibn: [22] 836-839

Saint, Assoto: [33] 507-518

Sally Hemings, an American Scandal: [40] 508

"Sambo strategy": [40] 286-291, 293

Sanchez, Sonia: [10] 91; [31] 376-378; [34] 180-181, 679-687; [39] 19-20, 27, 119-131
--A Trip to a Backwoods Farm: [39] 122
--The Bronx Is Next: [10] 91; [39] 119-120, 122-124, 128-130
--Dirty Hearts: [39] 119, 121-122, 127
--Does Your House Have Lions?: [39] 126
--I'm Black When I'm Singin', I'm Blue When I Ain't: [39] 119, 125, 127
--Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: [34] 180-181
--Malcolm Man Don't Live Here No Mo: [39] 123
--Sister Sonji: [39] 119, 121, 123-125, 130
--They That Sit In Darkness: [39] 127
--Uh Huh, But How Does It Free Us: [39] 119, 121, 123-124, 129-130
--Wounded in the House of a Friend: [31] 376-378

Sancho, Ignatius: [31] 140-142

Sandburg, Carl: [2] 19-21; [26] 638-639, 642-649
--The Chicago Race Riots: [26] 638-639, 642-649

Sapphire: [34] 329-346

Sargeant, Winthrop: [25] 534-535
--Jazz: Hot and Hybrid: [25] 534-535

Saunders, Charles R.: [18] 90-92
--Imaro: [18] 90-92
--Imaro II: The Quest for Cush: [18] 90

Scarface: [39] 501, 506

Schapiro, Meyer: [40] 582-583

Schomburg, Arthur: [14] 96

Scott, James: [29] 502-505

Scott, John: [27] 257-276

Schuller, Gunther: [25] 452-453, 457-461
--The Swing Era: [25] 457-461

Schuyler, George S.: [12] 102-109; [16] 80-81; [24] 405; [27] 679-686; [28] 533-535, 538-539; [31] 182-183; [38] 443
--Black and Conservative: [12] 102-104, 106; [24] 405
--Black Empire: [27] 679-686
--Black No More: [12] 104-105, 107-109; [38] 443
--Ethiopian Stories: [31] 182-183
--Slaves Today: [12] 104

Scobey, Bob: [20] 188

Scott, Ronnie: [20] 188

Seabrook, William: [39] 333
--Magic Island: [39] 333

Seacole, Mary: [26] 651-663
--The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands: [26] 651-663

Sebree, Charles: [19] 6-8

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky: [40] 242, 249, 446-447, 453

Séjour, Victor: [40] 621, 632, 757
--“Le Mûlatre”: [40] 621, 632, 757

Selby, Hubert: [16] 44-45
--Last Exit to Brooklyn: [16] 44-45

Seldes, Gilbert: [39] 320

Senghor, Léopold S.: [10] 101; [15] 127-132, 174; [40] 153
--"Le Totem": [15] 127-132, 174

Senna, Danzy: [40] 93-108
--Caucasia: [40] 93-108

Sexton, Anne: [39] 35-36

Shaft (film): [38] 119-126

Shaft 2000 (film): [38] 119-126

Shakespeare, William: [29] 35-45
--The Tempest: [29] 35-45

Shange, Ntozake: [11] 112; [13] 134-138; [14] 121; [15] 51-54; [17] 73-78, 94; [18] 140; [24] 450, 578-580, 619-621, 717-729; [26] 99-107, 319-328; [37] 617-619; [39] 172
--"dreams as real as menses": [13] 136
--for colored girls: [11] 112; [13] 137; [15] 51-54; [17] 73, 76-78, 94; [18] 140; [24] 728-729; [26] 319-322; [37] 617-619
--From Okra to Greens: [26] 325-327
--nappy edges: [24] 450
--a photograph: [26] 322-325
--Ridin' the Moon in Texas: [24] 578-580
--sassafrass: [13] 138
--Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: [24] 619-621; [26] 99-107; [39] 172
--spell #7: [17] 74-76, 77-78, 94

Shaw, Artie: [20] 178, 188

Shaw, Nate: see Cobb, Ned

Shearing, George: [25] 575-576

Shepherd, Reginald: [35] 498-499
--Wrong: [35] 498-499

Shepp, Archie: [5] 150-153

Sherman, Charlotte Watson: [32] 317-329
--One Dark Body: [32] 317-329

"Shine" (toast): [14] 31

Shine, Ted: [14] 54-58
--Contribution: [14] 56
--Idabel's Fortune: [14] 57
--Morning, Noon, and Night: [14] 57-58
--Sho Is Hot in the Cotton Patch: [14] 56
--Shoes: [14] 56-57

Shockley, Ann Allen: [21] 133-146

Showalter, Elaine: [22] 15, 17-23; [23] 54-55

al-Siddiqi, Abu Bakr: [22] 838-839

Silver, Horace: [25] 648

Silvera, John: see Hill, Abram, and John Silvera

Simpson, Coreen: [21] 289-304
--B-Boys Series: [21] 290, 296-300
--Sky Portraits: [21] 301-302

Sinclair, Upton: [38] 430-432
--The Jungle: [38] 430-432

Singleton, John: [38] 119-126, 323
--Boyz N the Hood (film): [38] 120, 122, 124, 323

Singleton, William Henry: [35] 664-666
--Reflections of My Slavery Days: [35] 664-666

Škvorecký, Josef: [25] 621-632

slave narratives: [40] 223-234

Small, Terry: [32] 51-56
--The Legend of John Henry: [32] 51-56

Smalls, Robert: [3] 31-32

Smith, Amanda Berry: [26] 122-123, 126
--Autobiography: [26] 122-123, 126

Smith, Anna Deavere: [31] 372-373; [37] 127-138
--Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992: [31] 372-373

Smith, Bessie: [20] 178-179, 188, 201; [25] 648

Smith, Charles: [31] 713-716
--The Black Star Line: [31] 713-716

Smith, Daniel: [19] 88-89
--A Walk in the City: [19] 88-89

Smith, Eugene: [25] 587-588

Smith, Jean Wheeler: [11] 21
--"Frankie Mae": [11] 21

Smith, Mamie: [2] 56

Smith, Milton: see Mbembe

Smith, Roger Guenveur: [31] 727-728
--A Huey P. Newton Story: [31] 727-728

Smith, S. Morgan: [16] 132-135; [18] 117-118; [20] 75-79

Smith, Vincent: [19] 26-27

Smith, William Gardner: [7] 80-81; [24] 12-13
--"The Call of Africa": [24] 12-13
--The Last of the Conquerers: [7] 81
--The Stone Face: [7] 80-81

Smith, Willie "The Lion": [20] 179

Smokehouse painters: [24] 509-531

Snitzer, Herb: [25] 561-592

Snow, Valaida: [16] 158-160

Sollors, Werner: [23] 51-52; [39] 310-311; [40] 263-264

Somerville, Siobhan: [40] 223, 225-226
--Queering the Color Line: [40] 225-226

Son of Ingagi (film): [12] 130

Song of the South: [38] 24

Sophocles: [38] 632-633
--Oedipus Rex: [38] 631-634

Soyinka, Wole: [15] 137-139, 141-142; [22] 421-629, 645-803; [30] 99-113; [36] 663-678; [38] 657, 664
--"Abiku": [22] 774; [38] 657, 664
--Aké, The Years of Childhood: [22] 513-514; [36] 663-678
--and anarchism: [22] 533-536
--and Chinweizu: [22] 476-483, 491-492, 556-558, 562
--and socialism: [22] 503-514
--and the Nobel Prize for Literature: [22] 421-488, 777-778
--The Bacchae of Euripides: [22] 523-524, 541-542, 547-548, 688, 692
--Before the Black Out: [22] 514, 621-623
--"The Critic and Society": [22] 493-495, 509-510
--A Dance of the Forests: [22] 519, 541, 543-544, 663-672, 680-681
--Death and the King's Horseman: [22] 520-521, 538-539, 577, 594-608, 611-612, 705-733, 779-783, 785, 787-792, 794-795, 801-802
--"Dedication": [22] 770-771
--Die Still, Dr. Godspeak: [22] 695-704
--"Idanre": [22] 768-769, 771-772
--Idanre and Other Poems: [22] 537-538
--The Interpreters: [22] 572, 624, 645-654, 735-765
--Kongi's Harvest: [22] 524, 539-540, 623
--The Lion and the Jewel: [22] 516, 539
--Madmen and Specialists: [22] 543
--The Man Died: [22] 507-508, 658-661
--Myth, Literature and the African World: [22] 540-541, 607-610, 668-669, 711-721
--"Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Tradition": [22] 491-492
--"O, Roots!": [22] 769-770, 774
--Ogun Abibimãn: [22] 525, 769-770, 773
--Opera Wonyosi: [15] 137-139; [22] 615-621, 672-677, 683
--A Play of Giants: [22] 624-627, 677-681, 795
--Requiem for a Futurologist: [22] 683-693, 695-704
--The Road: [22] 519-520, 790, 799
--Season of Anomy: [15] 141-142; [22] 525-526, 546, 548-551, 570-571, 654-658
--A Shuttle in the Crypt: [22] 524-525
--The Strong Breed: [22] 522-523, 577-594, 607-608, 611-612
--"Who's Afraid of Elesin Oba?": [22] 492-493
--"The Writer in an African State": [22] 498-500

Spence, Eulalie: [28] 207-209, 210-211, 213-214
--Her: [28] 210-211, 214
--Undertow: [28] 214

Spencer, Anne: [9] 93-94; [12] 74-75

Sperber's Law: [39] 502, 504

Spillers, Hortense: [40] 161-165, 168-171, 228, 230, 261
--“Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe”: [40] 261

spirituals: [23] 559-578

Stahl, John: [32] 481-491
--Imitation of Life (film): [32] 481-491

Stein, Gertrude: [16] 107-112; [18] 119-121; [21] 256; [27] 601-613; [40] 426, 428-429, 431, 435
--"Melanctha": [16] 107, 108-111; [18] 119-121; [27] 601-613; [40] 426, 428-429, 431
--"Portraits and Repetitions": [16] 112
--"Sacred Emily": [16] 108
--Tender Buttons: [21] 256
--Three Lives: [16] 108-109

Stephens, Walter E.: [40] 434
--"Mimesis, Meditation and Counterfeit": [40] 434

Stepto, Robert B.: [15] 11-15, 18-19; [20] 4-5; [21] 419-424; [34] 173-176; [40] 264-265
--From Behind the Veil: [21] 419-424
--"Introduction" to Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction: [15] 11-12
--"Teaching Afro-American Literature": [15] 12-15
--Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography: [34] 173-176

Sterling, Dorothy: [9] 120-122
--Mary Jane: [9] 120-122

Stevenson, Robert Louis: [40] 443
--The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: [40] 443

Steward, Austin: [39] 443
--Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: [39] 443

Stewart, Chuck: [25] 562-564, 579-580, 584

Stewart, Ellen: [27] 588-589

Still, William Grant: [32] 355-358

St. John, Primus: [35] 340-342
--Communion: [35] 340-342

Stoker, Bram: [39] 546-547, 550; [40] 446
--Dracula: [39] 546-551; [40] 446

Stokes, Herbert: [10] 90
--The Uncle Toms: [10] 90

Stoppard, Tom: [15] 153
--Travesties: [15] 153

Stowe, Harriet Beecher: [3] 46-47; [5] 132-136, 154; [6] 83-90; [30] 416-417; [38] 201-202, 205, 207, 211, 444, 627, 629, 633; [40] 127, 498
--Uncle Tom's Cabin: [3] 46-47; [5] 132-136, 154; [6] 83-90; [30] 416-417; [38] 216, 444, 629; [40] 127, 498-500

Straight, Susan: [34] 329-346

Stuckey, Elma: [11] 151-153
--The Big Gate: [11] 151-153

Stuckey, Sterling: [39] 232-233

Styron, Willam: [3] 45, 48; [9] 99-104; [23] 632-642, 654
--The Confessions of Nat Turner: [3] 45, 48; [9] 99-104; [23] 632-642, 654

Sukenick, Ron: [12] 5, 8, 11

Sutton, Ralph: [20] 179

Swift, Jonathan: [22] 683-693
--The Bickerstaff Papers: [22] 683-693

The Swing Mikado: [16] 153-155, 157