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Note: page numbers in bold indicate major discussions of works.

Achebe, Chinua 1Aesop’s fables 101–104African-Americans 1–2, 4, 83

all-black towns 86–87, 88, 89, 91, 92

Black Book 11, 62, 78children 99, 105–108cultural norms 41–42, 46, 52, 53displacement 5, 12, 43, 53, 112literature 5–12, 63–64migration 8, 19, 43, 78–82, 131,

135Not Doctor Street 43–44post-racism 14–15, 17–18racial self-loathing 19–20, 21, 22,

27, 28, 30, 31, 39racial violence 25, 49, 61, 62, 86,

106, 124, 132segregation 24, 34, 44, 49, 99,

105–109, 112–113, 132see also slavery

“Afterword” 20Ali, Muhammad 11

Als, Hilton 131, 136American Baptist (newspaper) 62Angela Davis: An Autobiography 11Anonymous 4 (vocal group) 12The Ant or the Grasshopper? 101–102,

103Atelier project 12Aubry, Timothy 92Austen, Jane 9

Bacon, Francis 12Baker Jr, Houston A 10Bambara, Toni Cade 11Beloved 5, 11, 61–75, 77, 78, 90,

117, 127Amy Denver 68, 69Baby Suggs 65, 68–71Beloved 66, 68–73, 99Buglar 65Denver 65–66, 68–69, 71–73, 99Halle 65, 66, 67Howard 65impact of slavery 61–73

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infanticide 11, 62–63, 65–66, 68–69, 71–72

Mister (rooster) 67, 69Mr and Mrs Garner 67Paul D 66–73Paul F 67Schoolteacher 67, 75Sethe 64–73, 131Stamp Paid 72

“Benito Cereno” (Melville) 8Berger, James 61The Big Box 100–101Billops, Camille 78binary oppositions 8, 32, 36, 39Birth of a Nation’hood: Gaze, Script,

and Spectacle in the O J Simpson Case 8

The Black Book 11, 62, 78Black Nationalists 87, 89, 113Blake, Susan L 10The Bluest Eye 11, 19–32, 39, 53, 78,

91“Afterword” 20cat 29–30Claudia MacTeer 10, 19–20,

22–25, 27–29, 31, 99Cholly Breedlove 23, 24, 25, 26,

131Dick and Jane primers 20–21,

22–23, 29displacement 19“Fall” 23Fisher family 24–25Frieda MacTeer 22–23, 99Geraldine 21, 28–30Great Aunt Jimmy 25Junior 21, 28–30Maureen Peal 21, 27–28, 29, 30Mr Henry 28, 29Mrs MacTeer 22–23Pauline Breedlove 24, 25, 26, 131

Pecola Breedlove 10, 19–31, 34, 99, 131

racial self-loathing 19–20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 30, 31, 39

Soaphead Church 21, 30–31standards of beauty 20, 39structure 22, 26, 27“Winter” 27, 29

The Book for Mean People 100, 101Brenkman, John 49, 52Brooks, Adam 63Brown, Claude 10Brown, Wesley 11Brown v Board of Education 105, 106,

107, 108, 132Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 63Busia, Akosua 63Byatt, A S 12

capitalism 41, 49, 53, 57Capriccioso, Rob 100Carmichael, Stokely 10Carter, President Jimmy 41Cather, Willa 7chain gangs 61, 67child abuse 54–55, 58–59, 109Childs, Dennis 61Civil Rights era 2, 42, 55–56, 87,

89, 109, 112–113school integration 106–108

Civil War 64, 77Clifton, Lucille 11Colonial period 2, 99, 120, 122, 124cultural norms 41–42, 46, 52, 53,

100

d’Amboise, Jacques 12“The Dancing Mind” 3Danielpour, Richard 11, 12, 63Danticat, Edwidge 12Davis, Angela 11deception 31, 55, 109

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Defoe, Daniel 7–8Degas, Edgar 12Demme, Jonathan 63Diop, Boubacar Boris 12Disney, Walt 55displacement 5, 12, 19, 43, 53, 112Dreaming Emmett (play) 11Dumas, Henry 11Duvall, John N 30

East St Louis riots 80, 95Eckford, Elizabeth 106exploitative labor practices 33, 53,

57, 81, 123

Faulkner, William 1, 2, 10Flaubert, Gustave 9“Foreign Bodies” (art installation)

12“The Foreigner’s Home” (Louvre) 12“Foreword” 83, 108–109Forrest, Leon 11Forsythe, William 12Fugitive Slave Law (1850) 62, 63Fullilove, Mindy 40Fultz, Lucille P 89, 94

Garner, Margaret 11, 62–63Garner, Robert 62Gericault, Theodore 12“Ghosts in the House” (Als) 131,

136Glennie, Evelyn 12Goldman, Ronald 8The Greatest, My Own Story (Ali) 11guilt and innocence 37, 39

Hardy, Thomas 1The Harlem Book of the Dead (Van Der

Zee) 78Harper, Frances E W 63Harris, Joel Chandler 55

Hemingway, Ernest 7Hill, Anita 7–8“Home” 2, 15, 131–136Home 131–136

Dr Beauregard Scott 134Frank Money 131Lenore Money 134lynching 133memory 131, 133Prince (Principal) 134Rev Jessie Maynard 133Ycidra (Cee) 132

Hurston, Zora Neale 1, 9

incest 20, 26, 109infanticide 62–63, 65–66, 68–69,

71–72Margaret Garner 11, 62–63

“Introduction: Friday on the Potomac” 7

irony 33isolationism of Americans 59

Jazz 77–86, 90, 91, 111, 117Acton 80–81, 83Alice Manfred 80, 83, 84Dorcas 80–81, 82, 83, 84Felice 80, 84“Foreword” 83Golden Gray 82Joe 79, 80–81, 82–83, 84Malvonne 84narrator 79, 84, 85Rhoda and Frank Williams

82–83Rose Dear 82True Belle 82Vera Louise 82Victory 83Violet 78, 79, 81–84Wild 82

Jazz Age 79, 83, 85

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Jim Crow era 2, 26, 44, 49, 61, 81, 112, 132

all-black towns 86children 99, 105, 107, 108

Jones, Bessie W 33Jones, Gayl 11Jordan, June 11Joyce, James 1

King, Martin Luther 42, 107, 108Korean war 132–133

LaGravenese, Richard 63Le Brun, Charles 12LeClaire, Thomas 2LeMaitre, Pascale 99The Lion or the Mouse 101,

103–104literacy 120–121Little Rock Nine 106Louvre 12Love 90, 91, 108–117

Bill Cosey 109–117Celestial 110, 115Christine 99, 109–111, 115–117deception 109“Foreword” 108–109Heed the Night Johnson 99,

109–111, 114, 115–117Junior Viviane 110, 114–115L 110–112, 113, 114May 110, 111, 112–113, 115, 116patriarchy 110, 114, 117Romen 114, 115Sandler Gibbons 113, 114Vida Gibbons 110, 113, 114

Ludwig, Sami 8lynching 133

Ma, Yo-Yo 12madness and sanity 36, 39Margaret Garner (opera) 11, 63

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia 1, 12Massiah, Louis 12McBride, Dwight 2McCluskey, John 11McDowell, Deborah E 32Melville, Herman 6, 7, 8memory 61, 62, 131, 133A Mercy 5, 53, 117–127

A minha mae 118, 120, 121, 122, 126, 127

Abigail 124Elizabeth 124Florens 99, 117–213, 125–127Jacob Vaark 118, 120–127, 131Lina (Messalina) 118, 120,

121, 123literacy 120–121Malaik 119–120Rebekka 118, 120, 121,

123–125Reverend Father 120, 121, 127Scully 118Senhor D’Ortega 121–123, 127Sorrow 118, 120, 123,

124–125Willard 118

Middle Passage 61, 62, 72, 124, 127

migration 8, 19, 43, 78–82, 131, 135

Mitchell, Angelyn 81, 82Moby Dick (Melville) 6Modern Jazz Quartet 9Modern Medea (book; Weisenburger)

63The Modern Medea (painting; Noble)

63Montgomery Bus Boycott 42Morrison, Harold (husband) 10Morrison, Harold Ford (son) 10Morrison, Slade (son) 10, 99–100,

101–104, 105

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Morrison, Toni (née Chloe Ardelia Wofford)

African American literature 5–12, 63–64

awards 1, 15, 41, 61beauty 19, 20, 39binary oppositions 8, 32, 36, 39biographical details 8–15, 41capitalism 41, 49, 53, 57childhood friends 20, 108–109children’s books 1, 3, 11, 99–108criticism 2–5, 11cultural norms 41–42, 46, 52, 53,

100cultural studies 3, 11deception 31, 55, 109displacement 5, 12, 45, 53, 112editor 1, 2, 3, 10–11, 62essayist 1, 2–5, 11expansion of artistic range 41irony 33Jazz Age 79, 83, 85librettist 1, 3, 11, 63Louvre 12Margaret Garner 62–63music 2, 4, 8, 11, 78, 83–85nonfi ction writer 2novelist 1, 2–3, 4–5, 10–11numerals 66playwright 1, 11power of language 4, 13–14,

55–56racism 2, 4–8, 14–15, 131, 135rememory 63, 71song cycles 11, 17teacher 2, 3, 10, 12universality 1–2

Nakhova, Irina 12“The Narrow Path” 107–108“The Narrow Path, the Open Gate,

the Wide Road” 105–106, 107

Naylor, Gloria 9, 10Noble, Thomas Satterwhite 63

Obama, Barack 14, 17–18“The Offi cial Story: Dead Man

Golfi ng” 8Ondaatje, Michael 12“The Open Gate” 107, 108

Paradise 77, 86–94, 111, 1178-Rock 86, 87, 96all-black towns 86–87, 88, 89,

91, 92Consolata 90, 91, 93convent 89–90, 91, 92, 93Deacon Morgan 87, 88, 89Dovey Morgan 87, 88Gigi 90, 94Jeff Fleetwood 87Mavis 90, 94Mindy Morgan 88Mirth DuPres 87Nathan DuPres 87Pallas 90, 94Patricia Best 88, 92, 93, 94, 97reader participation 90–91, 92, 93Rector Morgan 88–89Seneca 90, 94Soane Morgan 87, 88Steward Morgan 87, 88, 89, 93Sweetie Fleetwood 87Zechariah Morgan 88

Parks, Rosa 108patriarchy 2, 38, 86–88, 90, 92–93

all-black towns 86, 87Love 110, 114, 117Song of Solomon 41, 46, 48

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 5, 7, 12

Poe, Edgar Allan 7Poppy or the Snake? 101, 104post-racism 14–15, 17–18

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Potter, Giselle 99property rights 33, 65, 66

Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality 7

racial violence 25, 49, 61, 62, 86, 106, 124, 132

racism, systemic 61“The Raft of Medusa” (painting;

Gericault) 12Random House 3, 10, 62rape 20, 26, 31, 54, 64, 127reader participation 3–4, 5, 21,

65–66, 84, 107children 100Paradise 90–91, 92, 93

Reagan, Bernice Johnson 12“Recitatif” 91, 97, 99

Roberta 97, 99Twyla 97, 99

Reconstruction era 2, 62, 63, 77, 81, 86

religion 86, 88–89, 94, 121–122, 124–125, 127

Remember: The Journey to School Integration 99, 105–108

rememory 63, 71respectability and rebelliousness 34,

35, 36, 38, 39Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) 7–8“Rootedness: The Ancestor as

Foundation” 4

scapegoating 28, 31, 40school integration 99, 105–108Sellars, Peter 12Seurat, Georges 12sexual abuse 26, 67, 80, 114, 118,

120, 122, 127rape 20, 26, 31, 54, 64, 127

Simpson, Nicole Brown 8Simpson, O J 8Sixteenth Street Baptist Church 42,

108slave ship 61, 72slavery 2, 42, 44, 61–73, 78

displacement 5, 12, 19, 43, 53impact of 53, 61–73literacy 120–121migration 8, 19, 43, 78–82property rights 33, 65, 66sexual assault 64, 67, 80, 118,

120, 122, 127Song of Solomon 41–52, 53, 59–60,

78, 117Circe 42, 52Corinthians 42, 43Guitar Bains 46, 48, 49, 50Hagar 46, 47, 48, 49, 51Lena (Magdalena) 42, 43Macon Dead 42–43, 45–49, 51,

59Macon Dead Snr 44–45, 46, 50,

51Milkman Dead 42–52Not Doctor Street 43–44patriarchy 41, 46, 48Pilate 42, 45–52Reba 46, 47Reverend Cooper 45Robert Smith 43, 52Ruth Foster Dead 42, 46Seven Days 49Solomon 42, 44, 46

Soyinka, Wole 1Stern, Katherine 47–48strategies of resistance 33Sula 32–40, 53, 78, 91, 132

Ajax 39binary oppositions 32, 36, 39The Bottom 32–33BoyBoy 34

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Cecile Sabat 34Chicken Little 36, 37Dewey King 35Eva Peace 34–35, 37, 38, 47exploitative labor practices 33Hannah Peace 34–38, 47Helene Wright 34, 37Jude Greene 37–38, 39National Suicide Day 33–34, 36,

40Nel Wright 34–39, 99Pearl Peace 34Plum Peace 34, 35Rochelle 34Shadrack 33–34, 35–37, 39–40,

132Sula 34–39, 99Tar Baby 35Wiley Wright 34

systemic racism 61

Tar Baby 53–60, 78child abuse 54–55, 58–59Gideon (Yardman) 54–55, 58Jadine Childs 54–56, 57, 131Margaret Street 53–55, 57, 58,

59, 131Marie Thérèse (Mary) 54–55, 58Michael Street 53–54, 58, 131Ondine Childs 53–55, 56, 58, 131Son Green 54–57Sydney Childs 53–55, 56, 58, 131

Valerian Street 53–55, 57, 58, 59, 131

They Came Before Columbus (Van Sertima) 11

Thomas, Clarence 7–8Till, Emmett 42Troupe, Quincy 11

“Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” 5, 6–7, 71

urban renewal 32, 40, 112

Van Der Zee, James 78Van Sertima, Ivan 11Vaughan, Sarah 9

Wall, Cheryl A 2, 11, 12, 62Weisenburger, Steven 63Welz, Peter 12Werner, Craig H 55white leisure cultural spaces 32whiteness 6, 7, 19Who’s Got Game? 101, 104“The Wide Road” 107, 108Winfrey, Oprah 90Women, Race, and Class (Davis) 11Woolf, Virginia 1, 10Wyatt, Jean 111

X, Malcolm 42