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Abani, Chris correspondence with James Weldon Sanctiﬁcum, 321 Johnson, 246 Adi, Hakim, 196 “The Ebony Flute,” 2, 10 African Blood Brotherhood, 198, 199, 201 poetry, 160–161, 164–170, 308 American Labor Alliance, 309 Bernard, Emily, 55 American Mercury, 226 Bernstein, Robin, 85, 330 Anderson, Regina, 273 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 219 Anstey, John, 46 Bildungsroman, 72–85, 385–386 anti-colonialism, 196, 198, 202, 203 biography, 144–157, 386–387 Armstrong, Louis, 318, 354 Black Arts Movement, 9, 112, 113, 195, 196, 209 in Chicago, 346 Black Bolshevism, 196–209, 389–390 “Heebie Jeebies,” 353 and Haiti, 207–208 Associated Publishers, 39, 184 and Panama, 203–205 Association for the Study of Negro Life and and the Caribbean, 203–206 History, 39, 184 Black Belt Thesis, 197, 206 Atlantic Monthly, 252, 254 Ethiopianism in, 198, 202 axiology. See value theory in the UK, 199–200 inﬂuence of Garveyism, 199 Baker, Josephine, 170, 331, 338, 347 US-UK connections, 196, 198, 208 Baker, Jr., Houston A., 2, 3, 22, black girlhood, 298–301 313, 316 Black internationalism, 196–209, 389–390 Baldwin, Davarian, 4 Black Lives Matter, 106 Baldwin, Kate, 196 Black Power, 195 Balshaw, Maria, 252, 259 blackface, 212, 220, 224, 226, 328 Baraka, Amiri, 9 Blount, Marcellus Barber, Rev. William, 106 “the preacherly text,” 233, 237 Barnett, LaShonda Katrice, 7 blues, 24, 170, 257, 260, 279, 308, 311, 317, Barrett, Lindon 350–351, 352 Blackness and Value, 365–366 blues poetry, 40, 100–103, 188, 308, 317 Batiste, Stephanie, 163 Boas, Franz, 31, 291, 293 Beal, Wesley, 57, 60 Boes, Tobias, 81 Bechet, Sidney, 353 Bolshevik Revolution (October 1917), 195, “Wild Cat Blues,” 352 196–197, 201, 206 Beecher Stowe, Harriet Bond, Horace Mann, 179 Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 330 Bond, Julian, 179 Belo, Jane, 293 Boni, Albert and Charles, 215 Benedict, Ruth, 298 Bonner, Marita, 163 Bennett, Gwendolyn, 89, 159, 163, 214 “On Being Young - a Woman - and Colored,” and artwork, 98 4, 73, 386 and family demands, 9 Bontemps, Arna, 186–188, 346 and Fire!!, 91, 276 Black Thunder, 209

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Popo and Fiﬁna, 187–188 Carroll, Anne Elizabeth, 131 Sad-Faced Boy, 187, 188 Castronovo, Russ, 84 You Can’t Pet a Possum, 187 Cayer, Jennifer, 275 Boyd, Valerie, 271 Charleston dance, 302, 346 Boykoff, Jules, 114 Cheng, Anne Anlin, 27 Braddock, Jeremy, 126, 130 Chesnutt, Charles W., 226 Braithwaite, William Stanley, 164, 166 children’s dance, 325, 330–338 Brawley, Benjamin, 226, 345 children’s games, 301–302 Briggs, Cyril, 198 children’s literature, 175–188, 391–392 Brigham, Cathy, 382 Churchill, Winston, 114 Brooks, Daphne A., 327 Civic Club dinner, 214 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 162, 391 Cohen, Harvey G., 24 Report from Part One, 111 Cole, Jean Lee and Charles Mitchell, 275, 277 Riot, 112, 115–121 Comintern, 199, 206–207, 209 Street in Bronzeville, A, 112 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), 198, Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, 199, 207 Kansas, 31 Communist Party of the United States of Brown, Jayna, 163, 331, 340 America (CPUSA), 199, 201, 206, 207, 208 Brown, Lawrence, 146, 151 Connelly, Marc, 238 Brown, Sterling A., 100 The Green Pastures, 247 Negro Poetry and Drama, 244 Cooper, Wayne, 201 on terminology of Harlem Renaissance, 4 Covarrubias, Miguel, 65, 91, 101, 225 on Zora Neale Hurston, 5, 297 in The New Negro, 225 Southern Road, 102 in Vanity Fair, 219–220, 221 The Brownies’ Book, 177–179, 332–336 Cowdery, Mae V., 159, 164–170 “Playtime,” 332 Craven, Joan, 152 Bruce, John Edward, 176 Crisis, 40, 89, 94, 98, 220, 226–227, 253, 276, 385 Bürger, Peter, 146 annual children’s number, 332 Burke, Inez M., 181 Krigwa Players, 273–274 Burroughs, Nannie Helen, 181 literary contests, 273 Bustill, Cyrus, 154 Negro in Art symposium, 211–213, 226, Butler, Judith, 27 228–229 Byrd, Rudolph P., 59 visual culture, 387 Crusader, 3, 198 Caddoo, Cara, 299 Cullen, Charles, 104 cakewalk, 276, 328, 347 Ebony and Topaz, 98–99 Calloway, Cab, 348, 349, 356 Cullen, Countee, 162, 178, 214, 218, 226, 271, 385 “Evening,” 356 and Gwendolyn Brooks, 112 Calverton, V. F., 78 and Harold Jackman, 217 Campbell, E. Simms, 106 The Black Christ and Other Poems, 104, 388 artwork, 97, 102–103 Color, 243 Carby, Hazel, 5, 32–33, 156, 380 review of The Wooings (Macfall), 227 Caribbean migrants cultural nationalism, 21, 22, 33 and radicalism, 198, 199, 200, 205 Cunard, Nancy, 8 and the Harlem Renaissance, 217, 224 Cuney-Hayes, Maud, 307 in Winold Reiss’s illustrations for The New Negro, 217, 219 dance, 301–302, See also cakewalk, Charleston, Caribbean, the children’s dance and debates about dialect, 224–225 jazz dance, 346–347 and radicalism, 203–206 shimmy, 346 in Macfall’s The Wooings, 212, 229 tap, 326–327, 339 in The New Negro, 218–219 turkey trot, 346 in the Survey Graphic, 216–217 Daniel, Sadie Iola, 184 Opportunity special issue, 229 Davis, Cynthia, 160 Carrington, Joyce, 93, 95, 97, 106 Davis, Jr., Sammy, 341

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Dawson, Charles, 93 “Black Beauty,” 355 Dawson, William Black, Brown and Beige, 23–26, 30 Negro Folk Symphony, 369 in Chicago, 346 Dean, Michelle, 66 “Mood Indigo,” 355 Decamp, Robert Leland Ellington, Mercer, 25 “Syncopation,” 320 Ellis, Thomas Sayer DeFrantz, Thomas F., 339 The Maverick Room, 321 dialect, 224–225, 243–244 Esty, Jed, 78 Dickson-Carr, Darryl, 262 ethnographic ﬁlm, 291–303 Domingo, W. A., 176, 197, 217 Ewing, K. T., 170 “The Tropics in New York,” 217 Douglas, Aaron, 89–90, 93–95, 97, 99–100, 101, Faith Ringgold 103, 106, 276, 339 Harlem Renaissance Party, 392 Douglass, Frederick, 181 Farebrother, Rachel, 90, 146 Dove, Rita Fauset, Jessie, 40, 47–49, 74, 98, 162, “Ludwig von Beethoven’s Return to 170, 226 Vienna,” 321 The Brownies’ Book, 178, 332 Du Bois, W. E. B., 40, 67, 78–79, 89, 94, 154, 184, Plum Bun, 63–64, 79–80, 82, 83–84, 138 208, 214, 217, 219 “Some Books for Boys and Girls,” 176 and Bildungsroman, 72–75 “Some Notes on Color,” 10 and black childhood, 175–176, 326, 332, 338 There is Confusion, 328–329 and folk culture, 273 Fearnley, Andrew, 4 and Miguel Covarrubias, 220 Fire!!, 40, 91–92, 276 and Sojourner Truth, 49 Fisher, Rudolph, 2, 10 and spirituals, 311–313 and class, 261, 262–264 The Brownies’ Book, 177–179, 180, 187 and Harlem, 253, 254–266 “Criteria of Negro Art,” 3 and music, 260–261, 313 Dark Princess, 74, 79, 82, 208 and the grandmother ﬁgure, 257–260 Darkwater, 49, 310, 338 “The Backslider,” 256 “Krigwa Players Little Negro Theatre,” “Blades of Steel,” 258, 261 273–274 “The City of Refuge,” 254–256, 258 Negro in Art symposium, 211–213, 226, “Common Meter,” 258, 261 228–229 “The Conjure Man Dies,” 264–266 Quest of the Silver Fleece, 78–79, 336–337 “Fire By Night,” 256–257 review of Born to Be (Gordon), 220 “Guardian of the Law,” 258–259 review of The Walls of Jericho (Fisher), 254 “High Yaller,” 253, 258, 261 Star of Ethiopia, 181 “Miss Cynthie,” 259–260 The Souls of Black Folk, 22, 310, 312, 369 “The Promised Land,” 257–258 “Talented Tenth,” 219, 347 reception, 252, 253–254 duCille, Ann, 5 “The South Lingers On,” 256, 257 Duck, Leigh Anne, 294 The Walls of Jericho, 253–254, 262–264, 266 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 161, 181, 185, 243, Fisk Jubilee Singers, 312, 369, 370 346 Fitzgerald, F. Scott Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, 161, 163, 183 The Great Gatsby, 115, 117 The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, 181 Floyd, Silas X., 176 Duncan, Thelma Myrtle, 183 Foley, Barbara, 56, 62 folk drama, 275–276, 282–285 Early, Gerald, 234 Foster, Tonya, 115 Ebony and Topaz, 92–93, 282 Frank, Waldo, 56, 58–59 Edwards, Brent Hayes, 113, 196, 239 Fusco, Katherine, 330 ekphrasis, 315–316 futurity, 176 Eliot, T. S., 159, 162 “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” 129 Garvey, Amy Ashwood, 195, 204 “The Waste Land,” 116, 160 Garvey, Marcus, 176, 177, 197, 309 Ellington, Duke, 27, 30, 34, 348, 355–356, 371 Garveyism, 195, 197, 198, 205

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Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, 3, 29, 59, 73 Harrison, Hubert, 2, 176 The Signifying Monkey, 316–317, 381 “A New International,” 198 Gibson, Mark Thomas, 106 Hartman, Saidiya, 73 Giddings, Franklin, 198 Hawkins, Marcellus, 178 Gilroy, Paul, 113 Hayes, Roland, 218, 369, 370–371, 372 Girard, Melissa, 161–162, 171 Hearts in Dixie (film), 296 Glavey, Brian, 320 Helping Negroes to Become Better Farmers and Goode, Eslanda Cardozo, 153 Homemakers (film), 296 Green, Edward S., 176 Henderson, Stephen, 9 Green, Paul, 238 Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 238–239 In Abraham’s Bosom, 247 Hill, Constance Valis, 339 Greene, Lorenzo, 96–97 Hill, Laban Carrick Gregory, Montgomery, 100, 330 Harlem Stomp!, 391 Griffin, Farah Jasmine, 113 Holcomb, Gary, 208 Griffith. D. W., 38 Holiday, Billie, 356–357 Griffiths, Alison, 293 in Chicago, 346 Grimké, Angelina Weld, 159, 164–170 “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” 356 erotic poetry, 163 Holloway, Karla F. C., 7 Rachel, 273 Huggins, Nathan, 5, 140 “Surrender,” 161 Hughes, Langston, 23, 24, 32, 40, 89, 100–102, Gruenberg, Louis, 246–247 164, 170, 175, 178–179, 186–188, 226, 271 Gurdjieff, George, 62 and Gwendolyn Bennett, 10 and Aaron Douglas, 90 Haidarali, Laila, 164 and Fire!!, 276 Hallelujah (film), 296 and folk culture, 244 Hammon, Jupiter, 41 and music, 307, 312, 314 Hammond, John, 23–24 and Carl Van Vechten, 65 Hancock, Trenton Doyle, 106 “Aunt Sue’s Stories,” 46–47 Harlem, 4, 7, 8, 68, 132, 136, 170, 188, 221, 234, The Big Sea, 1, 5, 9 246, 309 Black Misery (picture book), 187 and black radicalism, 8, 197 “Christ in Alabama,” 104 and cultural nationalism, 22, 33 The Dream Keeper, The, 187, 188 and Duke Ellington, 24, 30 “Justice,” 388 and Helene Johnson, 160 “Misery,” 101 and James Weldon Johnson, 391 Mule Bone, 131, 272 and Eslanda Goode Robeson, 148, 152, 153 “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” and Carl Van Vechten, 62, 63, 64 3, 9, 56, 73, 129, 264, 386 Bildungsroman, 80–81 Not Without Laughter, 75–78, 83, 339–341, 349 in Rudolph Fisher’s fiction, 253, 254–266 One-Way Ticket, 103 soundscape, 307–308, 312, 313, 316, 319, 320 “Passing,” 139 Survey Graphic Harlem number, 214–219 Popo and Fifina, 187–188 visual representations, 99, 100, 103 Scottsboro Limited, 104, 388 Harlem (journal), 165 The Weary Blues, (book), 101, 244, 308, 317 Harlem Renaissance “The Weary Blues,” (poem), 101 and black feminism, 4, 5, 7, 159 Hurston, Zora Neale, 5, 30–33, 34, 40, 135, 307 and children’s literature, 175–188, 391–392 and the Bahamas, 302–303 and film, 292 and black girlhood, 298–301 and queerness, 7 and black musical comedy, 278–280 and the West Coast, 346 and children’s games, 301–302 and trauma, 10 and dance, 301–302 manifestoes, 386 and drama, 382 posthumously published texts of, 6–7 and the folk, 380–383 terminology, 1–2, 4–5, 10, 14, 307 and folk drama, 275–276, 282–285 visual culture, 387–388 and music, 313 Harris, Helen Webb, 182 and representations of Africa, 280–281

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Hurston, Zora Neale (cont.) Ebony and Topaz, 92–93 and US South, 290–292, 294–298, 303, 381 Opportunity, 89, 101 and Carl Van Vechten, 65 Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 135, 170, “Black Death,” 271 178, 214 “Characteristics of Negro Expression,” 8, 130, Johnson, Helene, 160, 170 271, 274, 275, 302, 317 Johnson, James P., 320 Cold Keener, 275, 280 Johnson, James Weldon, 41–42, 44, 111, 135, 214, Color Struck, 271, 274, 275–276, 282 218, 271 correspondence with Langston Hughes, “A Plantation Sunday” (dramatization of God’s 276, 284 Trombones), 247–248 correspondence with W. E. B. Du Bois, 284 Along This Way, 236 “Drenched in Light,” 331–332 and Anne Spencer, 240–241 Dust Tracks on a Road, 301 and black diasporic cultures, 235, 242 ethnographic ﬁlm, 291–303 and dialect, 233, 240, 241 Every Tongue Got to Confess, 291, 294, 298, 300 and folk culture, 234, 235, 236, 238–239, 244, Fast and Furious, 275 246–247, 248, 273 The First One, 274, 282–284 and jazz, 348 The Great Day, 275, 280, 290, 296, 303 and performance, 245–248 Meet the Mamma, 274, 277–280 and regionalism, 234, 235 Mule Bone, 131, 272, 301, 382 and sermons, 236, 237–242, 246, 248 Mules and Men, 290, 294–295, 297, 298, 301 and the vernacular, 234, 235, 243 “New Children’s Games,” 301 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 83, Polk County, 280 99, 144, 154 Spears, 271, 274, 280–281 Black Manhattan, 11, 242, 253, 307 “Spunk,” 271, 280 Book of American Negro Poetry, 2, 8, 23, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 3, 281, 301, 319, 130–131, 224, 233, 239, 242–243, 249 381–382 Book of American Negro Spirituals, 238 Hutchinson, George, 28, 64 “The Creation,” 236, 240–241 Hyest, Jenny, 161 “Go Down, Death,” 245 God’s Trombones, 103, 233–249 Imes, Elmer, 68 “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” 249 improvisation, 319, 352, See blues, jazz “Under the Bamboo Tree,” 116 Ingram, Zell, 104, 106 Johnson, John Rosamond, 249 Johnson, Mat Jackman, Harold, 65–66, 68, 217 Inconegro, 125 Jackson, Angela, 112 Johnson, Sargent, 346 Jackson, Anselmo R., 176 Jones, Claudia, 204 Jackson, Esther Cooper, 195 Jones, Lois Mailou, 186 Jackson, Major, 121–122, 385 the jook, 317–318, 319 James, C. L. R., 195, 196 Journal of American Folklore, 291 and Black Bolshevism, 389 Journal of Negro History, 39, 184 The Black Jacobins, 207 “Jump Jim Crow,” 331 Toussaint, 207–208 jazz, 312 Keats, John and spirituals, 350 “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” 315 contemporary reception, 347–349 Kelley, Robin D. G., 318 in Chicago, 346, 353 Kellogg, Paul, 214, 215, 217 in Harlem Renaissance ﬁction, 348–349 Kemp, Melissa Prunty, 163 marching bands, 351 Kenyatta, Jomo, 195 New Orleans, 352–353 King Oliver swing, 353–354 “Dippermouth Blues,” 352 Jelly Roll Morton King, Jr., Martin Luther, 115 “Jelly Roll Blues,” 352 Knadler, Stephen, 147 Johnson, Bunk Knopf, 226 “Franklin Street Blues,” 318 Krigwa Players, 273–274, 284 Johnson, Charles S., 40, 164, 218 Kuenz, Jane, 162

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Laib, Paul, 152 Maxwell, William, 201, 208, 391 Lambert, Leonard Constant, 247 McBrown, Gertrude Parthenia, 185–186 Larsen, Nella, 40, 98, 163, 170, 175, 178 McCluskey, Jr., John, 252 Passing, 66–68, 80–81 McCoo, Edward J., 181 Quicksand, 80–81, 84, 85, 90, 132, 317, 386 McDougald, Elise Johnson, 91, 163, 215, 219 “Sanctuary,” 131–132 McDowell, Deborah E., 79 and Carl Van Vechten, 66–69 McKay, Claude, 59, 89, 117, 118, 170, 176, 195, 196, Lawrence, Jacob, 103 201, 205, 217, 309 Leonard, Keith D., 162 and Black Bolshevism, 198, 389 Lewis, David Levering, 5, 179 and Gwendolyn Brooks, 112 Liberator, 201, 314, 315 Banana Bottom, 205 Lindsay, Vachel, 238 Banjo, 200–201, 208 “The Daniel Jazz,” 238, 246 “Exhortion: Summer 1919,” 201–203 Liveright, Horace, 214 Home to Harlem, 100, 200–201, 205, 349 Löbberman, Dorothea, 7 “If We Must Die,” 114, 120, 121, 203, 390 Locke, Alain, 8, 21–23, 33–34, 72, 78, 83, 89, 100, “Negro Dancers,” 314–316, 318 118, 164, 218, 271 Mead, Margaret, 293 and African sculpture, 310, 315 Mencken, H. L., 226 and jazz, 348, 371 Mercer, Kobena, 3 and modernist music, 366–367 Messenger, 3, 40, 197, 276 and music, 308, 368–372 Michaels, Walter Benn, 29 and spirituals, 311–313, 368–371 Millay, Edna St Vincent, 162, 238 annual retrospectives in Opportunity and Miller, May, 175, 182 Phylon, 372–374 Christophe’s Daughters, 182 collaboration with Paul Kellogg, 214 Negro History in Thirteen Plays, 182 “Enter the New Negro” (essay in Survey Riding the Goat, 183 Graphic), 219 Miller, Monica, 136 The Negro and his Music, 326–327, 368–369 Miller, Nina, 160, 163, 164, 168, 329 “The Negro and the American Stage,” 274 minstrelsy, 212, 273, 332 Negro Youth Speaks,” 386 and Zora Neale Hurston, 331–332 The New Negro (anthology), 1, 8, 21–22, 90–91, and New Negro discourse about dialect, 214 117, 129, 213, 215, 217–219, 225, 310–317, 330, Mitchell, Verner D., 160 361, 368, 374, 379 Monroe, Harriet, 166 Survey Graphic, 213, 214–219, 221, 229 Moore, Darnell, 77 “The New Negro” (essay), 383–384, 385, Morrison, Toni 388–389 Jazz, 321 value theory, 362–368, 371, 390–391 The Bluest Eye, 341 Loeb, Harold and Marjorie Content, 57 Moton, Robert R., 217, 218, 219 Lovett, Louise, 182 music. See blues, jazz, spirituals Lowell, Amy, 166 Lynes, Katherine R., 160 Napier, Winston, 313 National Association for the Advancement of Macfall, Haldane Colored People (NAACP), 41, 235, 236, 240, reception of The Wooings, 226–228 242, 245, 248, 309 The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer, 211–214, National Geographic, 45 228–229 Naumberg, Margaret, 62 Majors, Monroe A., 176 Neal, Larry, 9 Makalani, Minkah, 4, 196 Negro History Week, 39, 184 Makonnen, Ras, 196 Negro Quarterly, 385 Mao, Douglas, 78 Negro Welfare Association (UK), 199 March for Our Lives, 106 Negro World, 197, 204, See also Universal Marinoff, Fania, 55 Improvement Association (UNIA) Marshall, Kerry James, 106 New York Amsterdam News, 309 Mason, Charlotte Osgood, 272, 295, 303, 380 Newsome, Mary Efﬁe Lee, 178–179, 185–186 Massood, Paula, 292–293 Nicholas Brothers, 341, 346

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Nkrumah, Kwame, 195 “A Woman from the Virgin Islands,” 217 North, Michael, 116 Renaissance ballroom, 307 Nugent, Richard Bruce, 89, 106, 276 Reuter, E. B., 99 “Drawings for Mulattoes,” 98–99 Rice, Thomas Dartmouth, 331 Gentleman Jigger, 7, 125–127, 128, 132–140 Richardson, Willis, 178, 274 “Smoke, Lilies and Jade,” 319–321 Near Calvary, 182 Negro History in Thirteen Plays, 182 O’Neill, Eugene, 273 Plays and Pageants from the Life of the The Emperor Jones, 100, 146 Negro, 182 Oler, Andy, 77 Ridge, Lola, 57–58 Opportunity, 40, 89, 97, 98, 101, 214, 215, 225, 227, Riis, Thomas, 278 229–230, 271, 276, 372, 385 Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 195 literary contests, 271–272, 273, 281 Paul Robeson, Negro, 144–157, 386–387 visual culture, 387 Robeson, Paul, 144–157, 195, 207–208, 260, orinphrasis, 317–319 271, 369 queer orinphrasis, 320 and Wales, 207 Orr, Tamra Robeson, William D. (“W. D.”), 154 The Harlem Renaissance, 392 Robinson, Amy, 138, 139 Ottley, Roi, 132 Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,” 326–327, 341, 346 Our Gang, 330 Roche, Betty, 24 Rogers, J. A., 24, 217 Padmore, George, 195, 207, 208 “Jazz at Home,” 348 Paramount Pictures, 293 Rolland, Romain, 60 Parascandola, Louis J., 160 roman à clef, 125–140, 144 Patterson, Tiffany Ruby, 295, 298 Rony, Fatimah Tobing, 299 Peake, Jak Rose, Amber, 115 “Watching the Waters,” 389 Ross, Marlon, 76 Pennybacker, Susan, 196 Rufus Jones for President (ﬁlm), 341 Pfeiffer, Kathleen, 79, 138 Rutter, Emily R., 160 Phillips, Michelle H., 177 Phillips, U. B., 40 Salleme, Antonio, 153 Plácido, 242 Sampson, Martha (Martha Gruening), 153 plagiarism, 131–132 Sand, Kaia, 114 Pleece, Warren Sanders, Mark A., 170, 308 Inconegro, 125 Saturday Evening Quill, 337 Pound, Ezra, 159, 166 Saturday Review of Literature, 226 Powell, Richard, 90, 103 Schiff, David, 26, 30 Schomburg, Arthur, 176, 217 queer ekphrasis (Glavey), 320, See also ekphrasis Schuyler, George, 78 and jazz, 347 Rainey, Ma, 170 “The Negro-Art Hokum,” 2, 3 Ramazani, Jahan, 112 Scott, Bonnie Kime, 212 Rampersad, Arnold, 5 Scott, Clarissa M. Ransby, Barbara, 154 review of The Wooings (Macfall), 227 Ransom, John Crowe, 171 Scott, Emmett J., 227 Rapp, William Jourdan, 127 review of The Wooings (Macfall), 226 Ray, Nora Holt, 127 Selznick, David O., 38 Red Summer of 1919, 114, 177, 203, 390 Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 150 Redding, J. Saunders, 161, 171 Shackelford, Jane Dabney, 185 Reed, Ishmael, 21 Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 9, 10, 131, 374 Reiss, Winold, 90–91, 98, 101, 215, 217 Sherwood, Marika, 196 “A college lad,” 217 Shockley, Evie, 7 “From the Tropic Isles,” 219 Shufﬂe Along (stage show), 273 “Harlem Types,” 217 Silent Protest Parade of 1917, 177 “Two Public School Teachers,” 215 Simone, Nina

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“Love Me or Leave Me,” 371 and Aida Overton Walker, 327 slavery and The Brownies’ Book, 332–336 in Harlem Renaissance texts, 38–50, 383–385 and Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece, 337 Smith, Bessie, 170 and Fauset’s There is Confusion, 328–329 Smith, Katharine Capshaw, 73 and Hughes’s Not Without Laughter, 339 Smith, Willie the Lion, 320 and West’s “An Unimportant Man,” 338 Sobol, Louis, 132 US South, 290–292, 294–298, 303 Soitos, Stephen, 264 Sollors, Werner, 21 value theory, 362–368, 371 Soto, Michael, 57 Van Vechten, Carl, 55–56, 62–69, 104, 125, 214, Soyinka, Wole, 316 228, 271 Spence, Eulalie, 274 and Eric Walrond, 204 Spencer, Anne, 7, 44–46, 161, 163, 170, 240–241 and Fania Marinoff, 55 spirituals, 311–313, 314, 368–371 and Jessie Fauset, 63–64 Stephens, Michelle Ann, 146 and Langston Hughes, 65 Stepto, Robert, 72 and Mcfall’s The Wooings, 226 Stevens, Margaret, 199 Crisis Sympoisum response, 63 Stewart, Jeffrey C., 363, 372 Nigger Heaven, 64, 127, 253 Stewart, Jeffrey G., 310, 312 VanDerZee, James Stock, Ralph, 153 Dancing School, 339 Stoddard, Lothrop, 115 Vanity Fair, 219–220, 221–224 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 48 vaudeville, 221, 278, 326, 327, 329, 331, 332, Sundquist, Eric, 378 339, 340 Survey Graphic, 214–219, 221, 229, 370 Villalongo, William, 106 Svoboda, Terese, 57 Vogel, Shane, 317, 319 syncopation, 316, 351 sensuous Harlem Renaissance, 325 and queerness, 320 Walker, A’Lelia, 271 Taylor, Prentiss, 104–105, 106 Walker, Aida Overton, 327–328 Teasdale, Sara, 162 Walker, Kara, 106 Temple, Shirley, 341 Walker, Madame C. J., 97 The Freeman, 241 Walker, Margaret, 162, 346 Theatre Art Monthly, 274 Wall, Cheryl A., 3, 5, 383 Thiele, Bob, 23 Wallace, Michele, 5 Thurman, Wallace, 91, 127, 346 Waller, Thomas Wright “Fats,” 320, 348, 349, 357 The Blacker the Berry, 74–75 “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” 353 “Cordelia the Crude,” 92, 248 “The Joint Is Jumpin’,” 357 Infants of the Spring, 6, 84–85, 125, 127, 130, Walrond, Eric, 195, 196 132–140, 386 and Black Bolshevism, 389 Thurman, Wallace and William Jourdan Rapp Caribbean identity, 224 Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in collaboration with Miguel Covarrubias, 213 Harlem, 248 in The New Negro, 225 Toomer, Jean, 34, 114, 178, 218 in Vanity Fair, 219–220, 221 and white modernists, 56–62 Opportunity Caribbean special issue, 229–230 Cane, 3, 30, 42–44, 203 review of The Wooings (Macfall), 228 Toomer, Mamie, 62 “The Palm Porch,” 225 Topsy, 330–331, 333 “Tropic Death,” 203–206, 225 Torrence, Ridgely, 273 Waring, Laura Wheeler, 91, 98, 178 Truth, Sojourner, 47–49 Washington, Booker T., 181 Turner, Lucy Mae, 161 A New Negro for a New Century, 379 Tuskegee Institute, 58 Up From Slavery, 144 Waters, Ethel, 170 Universal Negro Improvement Association “Dinah,” 353 (UNIA), 177, 197, 199 Webster, Ben, 24 uplift ideology, 326, 387 Wells, James L., 96–97

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West African Students Union (UK), 199 Winn, J. Emmett, 296 West, Dorothy Woodson, Carter G., 39, 96–97, 175, “An Unimportant Man,” 337–338 184–186 West, Rebecca, 247 African Myths, 184 Whalan, Mark, 60 Negro History Bulletin, 186 Wheatley, Phillis, 41, 126 The Workers Dreadnought, 201 Wheeler, Belinda, 160 Workers’ League, 309 White, Edward, 65, 69 Wright, Nazera Sadiq, 300 White, Mary Ovington, 226 Wright, Richard, 5, 6, 74, 111, 207, White, Walter, 55, 226 308, 346 Flight, 64, 81–82 review of Their Eyes Were Watching Whiteman, Paul, 25, 30 God, 331 Whitman, Walt, 58, 59 Wright, Roscoe, 104 Wiegman, Robyn, 28 Wylie, Elinor, 162 Wilkinson, Hilda Rue, 178 Williams, Bert, 100, 224 Yancey, Bessie Woodson, 185 Williams, Daniel G., 337 Young, Charles, 176 Williams, Robert, 32 Wilson, Woodrow, 38 Zamora, Javier, 121–122