Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture

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Index Abduction, 28, 30, 43, 47–51, 78, 89, 95 Abyssinian Baptist Church, 145 Accident neurosis, 6, 46 Across the Wounded Galaxies, Interviews with Contemporary Science Fiction Writers (McCafferty), 217 African American Interpretive Program (AAIP), 100, 114–15, 121, 123, 180–81, 188, 224. See also Colonial Williamsburg; Christy Coleman Matthews; Rex Ellis African American Slave Narratives (Barrett), 4, 33, 35, 40, 46, 56, 73, 94, 125–26, 128, 133, 135, 146, 149, 205, 211 African cosmology, 49, 55 The Afro-American (Richmond, Virginia), 212 The Afrocentric Idea (Asante), 156, 211 Afrocentrism, 15, 133, 135, 137, 144, 146–47, 155–56 “After the Love” (Gilroy), 92, 214 Akbar, Naim, 47 Alabama, 11, 35, 48, 133 Ali, Shahrazad, 119 Allred, Randal, 162–63, 211 Amos, John, 195, 197 Ancestors, 2, 118, 128, 131–32, 140, 142, 153, 157–58, 195, 197; experience of, 136, lessons from, 63, 74, 166; libations for, 58, 102, 137, 145; maternal links to, 13, 124; “skins” of, 16, 173, 175–76; presence of, 10; voices of, 105, 149, 171 Andrews, Brenda, 118–19, 121, 128, 211 Are You Still a Slave? (Ali), 119 Asante, Molefi Kete, 156, 211 Ashanti, 101 “Ask a Black Dude” (Zaino), 221 As Nasty As They Wanna Be (2 Live Crew), 92 Auction block, 1, 27, 87, 116, 123, 127, 154, 178 Auschwitz, 129, 163 Authenticating document, 35–36 Authenticity, 37, 60, 69, 71–72, 87, 100, 102–06, 108, 115–16, 160–61, 169–70, 176, 179, 188 Back to the Future, 25 Baker, Houston A., Jr., 206n6 Baker, Charlotte Pierce, 206n6 Baldwin, James, 172, 211 Baltimore, Maryland, 14, 100, 106–7, 110, 139 Banned in the U.S.A. (2 Live Crew), 92, 220 Barnes, Arthur, 166, 172, 182, 185 Barrett, Lindon, 4, 33, 46, 56, 211 Beating, 31, 41, 90, 127, 175, 178, 186, 187; and homosexual coding of, 91, 93–94. See also Whipping Beizer, Janet, 50, 212 Beloved (Morrison), 2, 8, 17, 67, 99 Berlin, Ira, 3, 205n1 Berry, Halle, 124 “Between Memory and History” (Nora), 217 Billson, Janet Mancini, 88, 217 “Bitches Ain’t Shit” (Dr. Dre), 92 Black captives, 58–59, 101, 174, 209n4; performing as, 138, 141–44, 154 Black family, 75, 87, 95–96 224 Index Black Holocaust Exhibit, 58, 135 Black Like Me (Griffin), 34 Black males/masculinity, 70, 76; and cool, 81, 88; and desire for home, 78; and deviancy , 68–70, 95–96; feminization under slavery, 87, 90–93; gender conflict, 114, 122–24; and hip-hop 84, 93; hypervisibility of, 89; and “sodomitic threat” of violence during slavery, 91; subaltern positionality of, 85; and “white folks niggers,” 94 Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman (Ali), 119, 211 Black nihilism, 77–78 Black Noise (Rose), 72, 81, 219 Black Power, 83, 115 Black vernacular, 9, 15, 17, 110, 111, 193, 214 Blasphemy, 143, 144, 147 Blassingame, John, 149, 212 Blaxploitation film, 93 Blind Memory (Wood), 62, 141 Bodily epistemology, 2–5; and quilts, 55; as a cornerstone of living history, 111; as discipline , 65–67; as vernacular trauma theory, 9; in Chappelle’s Show, 199–201 Body: black/black female, 47, 50, 61; of Christ, 58, 60, 135; commodification of, 37, 128; as evidence, 9, 45, 59, 62, 205n3; as human beat box, 81; the master’s, 40, 56; as a mode of understanding the past, 13, 168–69; pained or in pain, 6, 13, 31, 40, 43, 46, 131, 149, 174; and the paradox of corporeality, 46, 62; representational strategy, 2, 4, 9, 33, 45, 96, 174, 199; sacralization of, 47, 58, 128, 135; scarred or marked, 13, 33, 45, 47–50, 54, 56, 59–63; state control of (see also Incarceration), 14, 74, 79, 86, 94, 119 Boone Hall Plantation, 71. See also Plantation Boyd, Bentley, 111–12, 115–16, 120, 212 Boyd, Todd, 83, 91–92, 212 “The Boy Who Painted Christ Black” (Clarke), 135 Boyz N the Hood, 68 Bradbury, Ray, 25 Branding, 20, 42 Brat Camp (ABC), 65, 212 Brazil, 35 Brent, Linda, 73 Brother Future, 3, 14, 63, 65–66, 68–69, 71, 77–79, 83, 89, 90–93, 96, 206n3, 207n5, 211–12 Browder, Tony, 133, 146 Brown, Clemson, 147 Brown, Georg Stanford, 195 Bruner, Edward H., 101, 212 Bundles, A’Lelia, 195, 212 Burnett, Charles, 34 Burton, LeVar, 197–98, 203 Butler, Octavia, 3, 11, 19, 34, 45, 63, 79, 212, 216, 218–19 Callahan, Allan Dwight, 208, 212 Call and response, 155 Cape Coast, Ghana, 99, 101, 103 Captivity narrative...