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193 INDEX abolitionism, 12, 47, 90, 106, 109, 110, 115–22, 175nn7–8 accommodationist approach, 46–47 Africa: archaeological expedition to, in Of One Blood, 132, 133, 137, 139–44, 148–49; and civilization’s development, 1, 33, 138–39, 142, 156; in Cullen’s “Heritage,” 161–62; as “imagined community,” 24; music in, 41, 148–49; oral tradition of, 180n20; supernaturalism in, 44. See also Ethiopia and Ethiopianism; National Mother; slave trade; slavery African Americans: citizenship rights for, 4, 7, 20; domestic novels by black women, 7–9, 35–36; and domesticity, 7–9, 26–27, 166n8; “double consciousness ” of, 147–48, 149; education of, 89; middle-class status for, 179n14; myth of black rapist, 8, 78–79, 108, 126; and “one drop rule,” 20, 47, 98; and passing as white, 84, 98, 132, 137, 149, 178n5; “race progress” and motherhood, 26–27; and racial amalgamation, 112–14, 176n18; status of mother among, 18; stereotypes of, 7–8, 108, 170n12, 173n20, 176n16; voting rights for, 27. See also lynchings; motherhood; motherlessness ; National Father (of the United States); National Mother; racism; sexual exploitation and rape; slavery Allen, Sarah A., 67 amalgamation. See racial amalgamation American exceptionalism, 62, 72, 94, 117, 154–55 American Indians. See Native Americans American Revolution, 7 Ammons, Elizabeth, 5, 6, 7, 8, 165nn1–2, 165n5 Anderson, Benedict, 24 Anglo-Saxon superiority, 72 Anthias, Floya, 35, 169n2 anti-lynching campaign, 107–9, 172n9. See also lynchings Aristocracy—A Musical Drama in 3 Acts (Hopkins), 26 Armstrong, Louis, 157 assimilation, 22, 46, 98, 167n25 Atchison, David R., 177n22 barbarism. See savagery and barbarism Barnum, P. T., 133 Baym, Nina, 5–6 Bederman, Gail, 31, 78–79, 82, 83, 108, 111, 172n9, 173n20, 174n22, 175n12 Beecher, Catherine E., 6 Beecher, Henry Ward, 116, 145, 147 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 93 Berg, Allison, 27, 38, 166n13, 168–69nn37–38 Berlant, Lauren, 9, 17, 82–83, 127, 176n20, 178n33 Bible. See Old Testament Black Atlantic, The (Gilroy), 61, 171n24 194 Index black nationalism, 9, 28, 166n14, 168n29 Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 170–71n18 blacks. See African Americans; slavery Bleeding Kansas: and abolitionists, 106, 110, 115–22, 175n8; and caning of Sumner in U.S. Senate, 109–10; and Free Soil Party, 97, 106–7, 110, 116–22, 175nn7–8; as “holy war,” 106, 116–22; and John Brown, 32, 106, 175n10; and Kansas-Nebraska Act, 96, 106, 116, 175n7; and Kickapoo Rangers, 116–17, 177n22, 177n27; limits on free speech in, 115; Osawatomie battle in, 107, 110–11, 175n10; Pottawatomie Massacre in, 116, 118, 177nn26–27; proslavery legislature in, 106–7, 115; proslavery Missourians (“Border Ruffians”) in, 106–7, 110–11, 115–16, 118, 175n9, 177n25; violence and barbarism of, 31–32, 95–96, 105–22, 130, 177n22, 177n25. See also Winona (novel by Hopkins) Bloch, Ruth, 165n1 blues music, 13, 31, 53, 167n21 blues novel, 53, 170n17 Blyden, Edward, 138 Boris, Eileen, 27, 166n13, 168nn34–35 Bost, Suzanne, 47 Boston, Mass., 41–42, 73, 145, 158, 169n6 Brent, Linda, 10 Britain. See England Brooks, Christopher A., 180n18 Brooks, Daphne A., 179n15, 180n19 Brooks, Preston, 109–10 Brown, John: allusion to, in Of One Blood, 179n7; as benevolent parent figure in Winona, 118–19; as character in Winona, 32, 97, 106, 107, 115, 116, 118–21, 126, 175n10, 179n7; illustrations of, 119–21; and message from first wife after her death, 179n7; and Osawatomie battle, 119, 120, 175n10; and Pottawatomie massacre, 116, 118, 177n27; praise for, as martyr, 118–21, 177n28. See also Bleeding Kansas Brown, Lois, 26, 34, 67, 168n31 Brown, William Wells, 5, 47, 48, 170n10, 172nn3–4 “Brown of Ossawatomie” (Whittier), 119, 120 Buffalo, N.Y., 96–101, 112, 114, 123–24, 129 Butler, Andrew, 109 Camille, 79–80, 81, 92 Campbell, Jane, 60–61 Carby, Hazel V., 8, 10, 167n27, 170n11 Carmack, George, 171n20 Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 67 catharsis, 51, 53–54, 56, 64, 143–44, 150, 158. See also psychoanalytic theories Cheng, Anne Anlin, 22, 51, 170n14 Chesnutt, Charles, 112–13 children. See motherlessness; oedipal complex; pre-oedipal state Chireau, Yvonne P., 44 Christian, Barbara, 171n22 citizenship rights: Berlant on “diva citizenship ,” 178n33; exclusion of African Americans from, 18, 20–22, 31, 65, 82, 96, 97, 128, 141; and Fourteenth Amendment, 7, 20, 25, 59, 130; and mother’s restoration, 4; and mulatto/a figures, 44–45 Civil War, 70, 76, 96, 122, 129, 130, 135 civilization: and Ethiopianism, 1, 33, 138– 39, 142, 156; “mothers of civilization,” 5, 165n1, 165n3; oediapl crisis as necessary for...
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