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Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah, 96 Thousands Gone”; “The New Lost Addison, Joseph, 203 Generation”; “Notes of a Native Son” Africa, 23, 45, 100, 131, 164, 180, 181, 233–42 (essay); “Princes and Powers”; “A Question AIDS, 84 of Identity”; “A Report from Occupied “Alas, Poor Richard,” 23, 264, 266, 268, 271 Territory”; “Stranger in the Village” Als, Hilton, 80, 92, 183, 202 Miscellaneous / Collaborations. See A Lover’s Amen Corner, The, 11, 58, 94, 169, 171–2, 173, 175, Question; Hallelujah Chorus, Little Man, 245, 246, 248, 251 Little Man; Nothing Personal Anderson, Marian, 58 Novels. See Another Country; Giovanni’s Room; Angelou, Maya, 70, 82, 107, 108, 279, 282, 283, Go Tell It on the Mountain; If Beale Street 284, 302 Could Talk; Just Above My Head; Tell Me Another Country, 2, 24, 28, 29, 31, 35, 39, 49, 50, 52, How Long the Train’s Been Gone 53, 54, 59, 60, 71, 113, 117, 133, 138, 144, 190, Plays and Screenplay. See The Amen Corner; 208, 245, 251, 258, 261, 279, 280, 293 Blues for Mister Charlie; One Day When Armstrong, Louis, 33 I Was Lost; The Welcome Table Atlanta, 139, 143, 150, 153, 185, 296 Stories. See Going to Meet the Man (collection); “Autobiographical Notes,” 34, 105, 224, 287, “Previous Condition”; “Sonny’s Blues”; 291, 312 “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” Avedon, Richard, 281, 308–10 Balfour, Lawrie, 92, 94, 99, 206 Balzac, Honore de, 18 Baker, Josephine, 20, 69, 70, 282 Baraka, Amiri, 2, 32, 63, 81, 82, 107, 160, 213, 248, Baldwin, David, 13, 17, 69, 73, 108, 183, 276, 276, 282, 283 282, 305 Beard, James, 68 Baldwin, James Beard, Lisa, 118 Essay Collections. See The Devil Finds Work; Beat Generation, 29, 30, 78 The Evidence of Things Not Seen; The Fire Belafonte, Harry, 43, 70, 212, 282 Next Time; No Name in the Street; Nobody Bell, Derrick, 127, 134 Knows My Name; Notes of a Native Son Bennett, Gwendolyn, 19 Essays. See “Alas, Poor Richard”; Birmingham, 39, 43, 44, 139, 142, “Autobiographical Notes”; “The Cross of 151, 153 Redemption”; “The Discovery of What bisexuality. See sexuality It Means to Be an American”; “Down at Black Arts Movement, 44, 77, 81, 84, 85, 211–19, the Cross”; “Encounter on the Seine: Black 229, 249 Meets Brown”; “Equal in Paris”; Black Lives Matter, 2, 101, 117–22, “Everybody’s Protest Novel”; “Fifth Avenue 201, 208 Uptown”; “A Fly in Buttermilk”; “Freaks Black Panther Party, 84, 161, 162, 212 and the American Ideal of Manhood”; “The Black Power movement, 77, 81, 84, 85, 157, 160, Harlem Ghetto”; “If Black English Isn’t 162, 212–13, 219, 229 a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?”; Blakey, Art, 15 “Journey to Atlanta”; “A Letter from the Blint, Rich, 205 South”; “The Male Prison”; “Many blues, 30, 149, 169, 169, 170, 204, 278

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Blues for Mister Charlie, 44, 45, 49, 61, 62, 94, 111, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 13, 43, 132, 151–2, 158, 213, 221, 246, 247, 251, 136, 144 281, 307 Cooper, Anna Julia, 203 Bone, Robert, 293 Counts, Dorothy, 138, 272 Bowling Green University, 61, 62, 215 Cowley, Malcolm, 265–7 Boyd, Herb, 92, 105, 113–14, 136 critical race theory, 100, 127–8, 130, 134 Boyle, Kay, 280, 281, 295 “The Cross of Redemption”, 48 Brando, Marlon, 51, 252 Cullen, Countee, 7, 8, 19, 57, 58, 226, 277 Braque, Georges, 67, 68 Brim, Matt, 96 Davis, Angela, 14, 63, 67, 84, 138, 162, 226, 234 Brown, Cecil, 69, 282 Davis, Miles, 69 Brown, H. Rap, 162 Davis, Ossie, 162, 165 Brown, Sterling, 8, 139 de Montaigne, Michel, 202 Broyard, Anatole, 29, 31, 32 Dee, Ruby, 251 Brustein, Robert, 248 Delaney, Beauford, 32–3, 50, 51, 58–9, 73, 277, Buckley, William F., Jr., 39, 40, 182, 234, 279, 304 245 Dempsey, Doug, 105, 107–8, 110, 114 Burch, Brad, 59, 62 The Devil Finds Work, 72, 94, 96, 205, 295 Burch, Claire, 59, 62 DeWitt Clinton high school, 8, 277 Burroughs, William, 29 Dickens, Charles, 64, 109, 204 Didion, Joan, 202 Cage, John, 29 Diop, Alioune, 235 Cain, James M., 291 “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an Caldwell, Erskine, 289, 294 American”, 23, 24, 204, 240 Calloway, Cab, 58 Dixson, Melvin, 318 Campbell, James, 18, 32, 50, 78, 84, 99, 105, 107, Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 109, 269 108–9, 110, 114, 271 Douglass, Frederick, 202, 289 Capote, Truman, 39, 77 “Down at the Cross.” See The Fire Next Time Capouya, Emile, 277 Drabinski, John, 94 Carmichael, Stokely, 67, 82, 84, 162 Du Bois, W. E. B., 19, 53, 203, 222 Carter, Jimmy, 226 Durrell, Lawrence, 68 Cazac, Yoran, 304 Dylan, Bob, 29 Césaire, Aimé, 10, 234–42 Cezzar, Engin, 49–52, 53, 54, 92, 107, 143, 245, 252 Eckman, Fern Marja, 105, 110–11, 139, 191 Chagall, Marc, 68 Eisenhower, Dwight, 139 Champion, Ernest, 62 Elam, Michele, 91 Charles, Ray, 94, 174, 178, 184, 215, 305 Ellison, Ralph, 80, 98, 174, 270, 271 Cherry, Don, 51 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 203 Child, Julia, 68 “Encounter on the Seine,” 20, 240 Christianity, 1, 2, 18, 25, 57, 227, 228, 251, 255, 312 Engstrand, Stuart, 289 Civil Rights Act, 157 “Equal in Paris,” 21 civil rights movement, 3, 11, 38, 39, 43, 61, 84, 90, Evers, Medgar, 38, 44, 61, 72, 79, 136, 151, 158, 159, 93, 97, 100, 118, 119, 122, 130, 131, 136–44, 147, 183, 184, 187, 229, 230, 234, 245 157, 212, 219, 269 “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” 188, 191, 195, 201, Clark, Kenneth, 38, 43, 139, 147, 212 221, 265–7, 270, 271, 278, 288 Clarke, John Henrik, 9, 10, 297 The Evidence of Things Not Seen, 3, 72, 85–6, 100, Cleaver, Eldridge, 63, 72, 84, 161–2, 195, 272, 153–4, 205, 296 294, 316 existentialism, 20 Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 92, 132, 134, 183, 201, 203, expatriation, 2, 17, 20, 21, 23, 25, 96, 109, 245 315–16 Cohan, Deborah J., 118 Fanon, Frantz, 235 Cole, Teju, 92 Farber, Jules, 92, 105, 112, 113 Cole, William, 107 Faulkner, William, 64, 137, 234 Coltrane, John, 177 Fauset, Jesse, 19 communism, 20, 34, 288 Ferguson, Rod, 96

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Field, Douglas, 91, 92, 95, 98, 105, 114–15, 205, 245 Harlem, 7–15, 32, 34, 52, 57, 58, 66, 70, 113–14, 128, “Fifth Avenue Uptown,” 114 154, 159, 212, 242, 276, 301, 304 The Fire Next Time, 2, 12, 18, 37, 38, 40, 41–2, 49, “The Harlem Ghetto,” 9 51, 54, 58, 59, 61, 86, 136, 157, 158, 169, 187–8, Harlem Renaissance, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 19, 57, 113, 191, 194, 201, 203, 205, 211, 213, 222, 226–9, 222, 277 245, 251, 268, 269, 292, 295 Harlem Six, 13, 14, 137 Fisher, M.F.K., 68 Harris, Bill, 215–16, 219 Fitzgerald, Ella, 32, 58 Harris, Trudier, 147 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 249 Hassell, Bernard, 69, 73, 107, 277 Flaubert, Gustave, 18 Hemingway, Ernest, 18, 19, 24, 109, 249 “A Fly in Buttermilk,” 139 Hemphill, Essex, 318 Foucault, Michel, 25 Henderson, Carol, 91, 293 Fortune and Men’s Eyes (Herbert), 51, 113, 252 Herbert, John, 51, 113, 252 Foxx, Redd, 114 Heston, Charlton, 165 Francis, Conseula, 77, 166, 206, 270, 293, 294 Himes, Chester, 32, 218, 290, 294 Franklin, Aretha, 178, 184, 216, 303, 308 Holiday, Billie, 94, 178 “Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood,” 33, homoerotic. See sexuality 34, 82, 134 homosexuality. See sexuality Freud, Sigmund, 188–92, 294 Horne, Lena, 33, 43, 212, 251 Howard University, 245 Gaillard, Slim, 30 Howe, Irving, 264, 270, 294, 295 Garnet, Henry Highland, 203 Hughes, Langston, 7, 19, 80, 113, 179, 222, Garvey, Marcus, 7, 10, 164 291, 293 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 8, 70, 76, 81, 82, 159, Hurston, Zora Neale, 170 160, 282 Ghansah, Rachel Kaadzi, 73, 92 I Am Not Your Negro (Peck), 2, 138, 208, 234, Gibson, Ernest, 153 319 Ginsberg, Allen, 29, 31, 255 If Beale Street Could Talk, 14, 72, 258, 260 Giovanni, Nikki, 82, 213, 306–7 “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Giovanni’s Room, 11, 21–3, 35, 49, 59, 71, 83, 96, 98, Me, What Is?,” 94 190, 192, 193, 244, 245, 251, 260, 261, 262, Istanbul. See Turkey 279, 280, 293 Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 118, 208 Jackson Pollock, 28 Go Tell It on the Mountain, 3, 11, 31, 32, 58, 59, Jackson, George, 67, 162 77, 91, 105, 109, 110, 147–8, 152, 169, 170–1, Jackson, Jesse, 64 173, 175, 179–80, 181, 227, 244, 251, 257, Jackson, Jonathan, 67 278 Jackson, Mahalia, 174, 178, 181 Going to Meet the Man, 100, 294 James, C. L. R., 32, 278 Goldman, Emma, 203 James, Henry, 50, 60, 202, 204 Gomez, Jewelle, 318 jazz, 19, 30, 51, 58, 105, 170, 172, 215, 278, Gordon, Dexter, 20, 30 302, 305 Gorky, Maxim, 288–9, 294 Joans, Ted, 29 gospel music, 148, 152, 169–75, 258, 305 Johns, Jasper, 29 Graham, Shirly, 289 Johnson, Lyndon, 44, 165 Greenwich Village, 8, 9, 28–35, 51, 58, 59, Jones, Clarence, 43 60, 62, 115, 154, 212, 244, 248, 258, 277 Jones, James Earl, 165 Guerin, Daniel, 291 Jordan, June, 203 “Journey to Atlanta,” 148, 207 Haley, Alex, 2, 51, 163, 308 Joyce, James, 255, 269 The Hallelujah Chorus, 94, 174, 184, 305 Just Above My Head, 73, 86, 152–3, 169, 172–3, 175, Handy, W. C., 58 179, 191, 251, 257, 258, 261–2, 282, 284 Hansberry, Lorraine, 44, 234, 246–8, 277, 281 Kaplan, Cora, 91, 97 Happersberger, Lucien, 107, 111, 279, 308 Karefa-Smart, Aisha, 70 Hardy, Clarence, 92, 95 Karefa-Smart, Gloria Baldwin, 69, 160, 180, 284

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Kaufman, Stanley, 293, 294 McCarthy, Mary, 34 Kazan, Elia, 163, 244, 252 McKay, Claude, 19, 278 Kazin, Alfred, 293, 296 McKay, Nellie Y., 76 Kenan, Randall, 91, 105, 203, 206, 208, 265, 318 McWilliams, Susan, 91, 118 Kennedy, Adrienne, 248 Mead, Margaret, 152, 213, 305–6 Kennedy, John F., 44, 83 Meredith, James, 38, 141 Kennedy, Robert, 43–4, 111, 164, 185, 212 Meriwether, Louise, 292 Kent State University, 305 Mezzrow, Mezz, 29 Kerouac, Jack, 29, 30, 77 Miller, D. Quentin, 71, 73, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 100, King, Lovalerie, 91, 284 106, 164, 165, 270 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 11, 12, 38, 39, 40, 43, 61, Miller, Henry, 18, 32, 255, 278 67, 71, 72, 76, 79, 82, 97, 122, 137, 139, 141–3, Miller, Orilla “Bill,” 57–8, 136, 144 151, 158, 159, 164, 183, 184, 229, 230, 234, 307 Montand, Yves, 68, 282 Kornegay, E. L., 92, 95 Morrison, Toni, 2, 70, 82, 97, 107, 129, 130, 201, Ku Klux Klan, 142, 164 208, 277, 282, 283–4, 318 Kupferberg, Tuli, 31 Muhammad, Elijah, 227, 228

Lacan, Jacques, 192–5 Nation of Islam, 10, 11, 43, 163, 187, 194, 227, 228 Lamming, George, 235 National Association for the Advancement of Lawrence, D. H., 255 Colored People (NAACP), 37, 136, 137, 158 Lebron, Christopher, 118 Native Son (Wright), 100, 188, 193, 201, 223–4, Lee, Canada, 58 229, 241, 264, 265–9 Lee, Spike, 94, 166 Négritude, 233–42 Leeming, David, 19, 49, 50, 51, 70, 73, 86, 105, New Jersey, 9, 30, 193 107, 109–10, 114, 117, 244, 251, 273, 276, 277, “The New Lost Generation,” 25, 31 278, 283 Newton, Huey, 63, 72, 84, 162 Lester, Julius, 63, 281 No Name in the Street, 14, 34, 49, 72, 83, 113, 129, “A Letter from the South,” 140–1, 149–50 137, 157–63, 205, 222, 229–30, 245, 295 Linx, David, 302–3 Nobody Knows My Name, 39, 59, 143, 205, 291 Little Man, Little Man, 303–4 Norman, Brian, 94, 97, 163, 225 Locke, Alain, 7, 19, 278 Notes of a Native Son, 7, 9, 20, 23, 59, 77, 105, 114, Loèche-les-Bains. See Switzerland 148, 159, 182, 202, 205, 208, 292, 224, 251, Lopate, Philip, 202, 203, 207 280, 293, 294, 316 Lorde, Audre, 82, 203, 216–17, 219, 306 “Notes of a Native Son” (essay), 20, 31, 113, 128, Lordi, Emily, 94, 174, 292 148, 193, 205, 230, 292 Lorraine Hansberry, 43 Nothing Personal, 205, 281, 308–10 Lost Generation, 20 A Lover’s Question, 302–3, 309 O’Connor, Flannery, 98 Lowell, Robert, 221 Obama, Barack, 121, 317 Occom, Samson, 203 Mabanckou, Alain, 92 Olney, James, 222 MacLeish, Archibald, 252 One Day When I Was Lost, 94, 157, 163–6, 251, 308 Mailer, Norman, 30, 39, 40, 77–8, 79, 161, 234 Ottley, Roi, 291 Malcolm X, 10, 11, 13, 38, 40, 61, 72, 76, 79, 82, 94, 114, 130, 136, 151, 154, 157–66, 183, 184, 203, Packard, Cynthia, 63 212, 221, 229, 230, 234, 245, 248, 308 Painter, Mary S., 66, 141, 142, 277, 279 “The Male Prison,” 190 Pakay, Sedat, 47–54, 92, 99 Manning, Marable, 163 Paris, 1, 2, 17–25, 33, 34, 48, 53, 72, 96, 108, 109, “Many Thousands Gone,” 206, 221, 241, 267–9, 114, 131, 154, 159, 212, 218, 245, 264, 278, 279, 271, 278 283, 301 Marcus Garvey, 7 Parker, Charlie, 30 Marshall, Thurgood, 37 Parks, Gordon, 107 Maxwell, William, 92, 99, 292 Parks, Suzan-Lori, 318 Maynard, Tony, 14, 115, 158, 165, 229, 230 Pavlic, Ed, 92, 94, 174, 302 McBride, Dwight, 90, 91, 96, 119 Peck, Raoul, 2, 138, 208, 234, 319

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Penn Warren, Robert, 98 Short, Bobby, 69, 107 Perl, Arnold, 165, 166, 308 Signoret, Simone, 68, 282 Petry, Ann, 294 Simone, Nina, 69, 178 Phillips, Caryl, 68 Smith, Bessie, 33, 94, 170, 178, 215, 278 Picasso, Pablo, 68 Smith, Jerome, 43, 212 Pinckney, Darryl, 288 “Sonny’s Blues,” 60, 94, 97, 174, 215, 305 Podhoretz, Norman, 133, 293, 296 Southern Christian Leadership Conference Poitier, Sidney, 165, 282 (SCLC), 83, 136 police brutality, 13, 14 St.-Paul-de-Vence. See Provence Prévert, Jacques, 68 Steele, Richard, 203 “Previous Condition,” 30, 31 Stein, Sol, 91, 208, 280 The Price of the Ticket (ﬁlm). See Dempsey, Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 64, 188, 195, 201, 266, 288 Doug; Thorsen, Karen “Stranger in the Village,” 105, 225–6 “Princes and Powers,” 23, 235–41 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Provence, 1, 17, 21, 66–74, 107, 108, 112, 114, 154, (SNCC), 136, 281 208, 282 Styron, William, 77, 78, 107, 277, 280–1 Puzo, Mario, 78, 294 Sururi, Gülriz, 50 Sweet Lorraine, 247, 281 queer, 33, 90, 93, 95–7, 99, 100, 130, 133–4, 161, Switzerland, 1, 24, 108, 170, 171, 245, 279, 301 207, 245, 249–51, 254, 259, 276, 277, 279. See also sexuality Take This Hammer, 39 “A Question of Identity,” 20, 71 Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, 118 Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, 49, 53, Rainey, Ma, 32, 58, 149 54, 67, 109, 113, 194, 251, 258, 259, 294 Rampersad, Arnold, 80 Terkel, Studs, 150, 170 Rankine, Claudia, 92 Thelwell, Michael, 63, 133 Rauschenberg, Robert, 29 “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon,” 21, 24 Reading, Bertice, 51 Thoreau, Henry David, 97, 202 Reagan, Ronald, 85, 100 Thorsen, Karen, 52, 53, 105, 107–8, 109, 110, Reed, Ishmael, 63, 81, 82, 107 114, 193 Reid-Pharr, Robert, 93 Till, Emmett, 132, 151, 158, 245, 308 “A Report from Occupied Territory,” 114 Tóibín, Colm, 92, 98, 204, 313 Rich, Adrienne, 203 Toomer, Jean, 19 Riggs, Marlon, 319 Traylor, Eleanor, 98 Rimbaud, Arthur, 30 Trilling, Lionel, 77 River, Joseph, 305 Troupe, Quincy, 71, 80, 86, 217–18, 219, 279 Robeson, Paul, 33 Truth, Sojourner, 206 Roth, Philip, 64, 77 Turkey, 1, 2, 21, 39, 47–54, 60, 61, 66, 85, 90, 92, Rothko, Mark, 28 107, 108, 109, 112, 113, 114, 144, 154, 208, 215, Rustin, Bayard, 83 245, 252, 301

Said, Edward, 53 University of California, Berkeley, 62, 63 Salinger, J. D., 77 University of Massachusetts, 63, 64 San Francisco, 1, 39, 213, 219 Updike, John, 77 Schomburg Center, 92, 115 Schwarz, Bill, 91, 97, 98 Van Ronk, Dave, 29 Scott, Lynn Orilla, 44, 90, 91, 92, 93, 106, Vidal, Gore, 39, 77, 83 206, 207 Vietnam War, 128 Seale, Bobby, 67, 84 Vogel, Joseph, 92, 100 segregation, 1, 3, 19, 21, 43, 98, 136–44, 147–54, 226 Voting Rights Act, 137, 157 Senghor, Léopold, 234–9 sexuality, 1, 2, 29, 33, 41, 48, 53, 54, 68, 69, 76, Walker, Alice, 2, 82, 98, 202 82–5, 95–7, 133–4, 161–2, 189, 216, 254–62, Walker, David, 206 281, 312 Wall, Cheryl, 97, 98, 204 Shagaloff, June, 37 Waller, Fats, 33, 58

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Ward, Jesmyn, 92, 118, 318, 319 Williams, Thomas Chatteron, 73 Washington, Dinah, 94 Wolff, Geoffrey, 51 Waters, Ethel, 33 Wonder, Stevie, 178, 184–5 Watkin, Mel, 296 Woolf, Virginia, 202 Wayne State University, 10, 62 World War II, 8, 17, 29, 33, 41, 59, 68, 195, 204, 255 Weatherby, W.J., 105, 111–12, 114, 161 Worth, Eugene, 24, 31, 34 Weir, Stan, 32 Wright, Richard, 19, 20, 23, 77, 106, 108, 161, 188, The Welcome Table, The 70, 244, 251 193, 195, 201, 204, 218, 221, 225, 234, 235, 237, West, Cornel, 121 241, 248, 264–73, 278, 294, 314 White Citizens’ Council, 142 Wideman, John Edgar, 63 Young, Al, 214–15, 216, 219 Wilde, Oscar, 63 Youngblood, Shay, 318 Wilkins, Roger, 292 Williams, Billy Dee, 165, 308 Zaborowska, Magdalena, 70, 73, 92, 99, 105, Williams, Tennessee, 252 112–13, 159