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Adamic, Louis, 36, 211n1 Adams, Katherine, 198, 214n16, 221n3 Althusser, Louis, 226n28 American Dilemma, An. See Myrdal, Gunnar Anger at Innocence. See Smith, William Gardner Arendt, Hannah, 222n10 Asante, Molefi Kete, 212n7 Aswell, Ed, 183, 237n1, 238n5, 238n7 Attaway, William, 4, 213n9 Baker, Houston, 15, 170–71, 178–79, 215n25, 236n23, 236n24 Baldwin, James, 2, 7–8, 13, 18, 19, 22, 25– 26, 30, 38–39, 40, 44, 50–53, 86–87, 89, 91, 106, 114, 115–129, 216n4, 217n13, 218n20, 220n35, 220n36, 222n8, 227n33, 227n34, 227n36, 227n37; “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” 8, 50–52, 118, 120, 220n34; Giovanni’s Room, 2, 19, 86–87, 90–91, 100, 106, 115–29; “Male Prison, The,” 121–22, 227n37; Notes of a Native Son, 39, 217n13, 222n8; “Preservation of Innocence,” 119–20, 121, 122–23, 220n36; Price of the Ticket, The, 218n20 Balibar, Etienne, 49 Barrett, Lindon, 55–56, 222n11 Beauvoir, Simone de, 183 Bell, Bernard, 56, 158–59 Berlant, Lauren, 57, 71, 72–73, 114, 125, 216n33, 221n5, 222n14 Bernard, Emily, 221n1 Black Boy. See Wright, Richard blackness (also black abjection, black dysfunction, black familial disorganization, black pathology, black suffering, racial injury), 4, 8–10, 13–16, 20–21, 26–27, 39–42, 47–57, 74, 76, 90, 92, 110, 115, 118–19, 133–34, 136, 145, 164–65, 171, 176, 179, 184, 191–193, 201– 7, 212n7, 215n26, 215n28, 219–20n32, 220n35, 226n16, 231n19, 237n32 Bogart, Humphrey, 2, 107 Bone, Robert, 14, 109, 146, 221n2 “Bones of Louella Brown, The.” See Petry, Ann Bontemps, Arna, 131 Brown, Lloyd, 13, 214n19, 214n23 Bunche, Ralph, 41 Butcher, Philip, 13–14, 221n2 Butler, Judith, 121 Carby, Hazel, 92, 225n8, 233n1, 233n4 Cast the First Stone. See Himes, Chester Castiglia, Christopher 6, 38, 213n12, 216n33 Césaire, Aimé, 183, 217n11 Certeau, Michel de, 110, 112 Challenge, 36 Chauncey, George, 93–94 Index 258 / index 199–200, 203, 207, 229n10, 236n21. See also manhood Feldstein, Ruth, 80–81, 195 Ferguson, Roderick, 9, 40–42, 51, 88, 114, 213n15, 219n25, 221n4, 222n9, 224n23, 225n8 Fikes, Jr. Robert, 211n2 Fisher, Rudolph, 91, 225n7 Flying Home and Other Stories. See Ellison, Ralph Fort Pillow Massacre, 154–55 Foucault, Michel, 8, 17, 40, 51–52,101, 104–5, 114, 226n18, 227n31 Foxes of Harrow, The. See Yerby, Frank Franklin, H. Bruce, 96 Frazier, E. Franklin, 41, 92 Freud, Sigmund, 185, 193 Gates, Henry Louis, 2, 15, 159, 212n5, 215n27 gay, 2, 6, 86–129 passim, 217n17, 220n35, 220n36, 224n4, 225n6, 225n12, 225n15, 226n18. See also queer; heteronormative; straight Gibson, Richard, 5, 18, 25, 40, 48–50, 51, 219n32, 220n34, 220n35 Giovanni’s Room. See Baldwin, James Gloster, Hugh, 12, 13, 131 Glyph. See Everett, Percival Gone with the Wind. See Mitchell, Margaret Gordon, Eugene, 214n19 Hale, Grace, 134, 168, 216n31, 229n10, 232n33, 236n20 Halperin, David, 95, 101, 225n11 Hammett, Dashiell, 36 Harper, Phillip Brian, 57–58, 115 Harper’s Magazine, 133, 183, 189, 211n1 “Health Card.” See Yerby, Frank Henderson, Mae, 115, 215n27, 227n32 Heteronormative (also heterosexual, nonheteronormative, straight), 7, 9, 19, 42, 51, 62, 64, 88–94, 97, 100, 103, 106–7, 109–10, 114, 116, 120, 122, 124–25, 220n36, 222n14, 225n12, 229n3. See also homoraciality; gay; queer Heteropatriarchy (also heteromasculinity, nonheteropatriarchal), 9–10, 20, 42, 54, 59, 82, 87–89, 91, 93, 106, 116–18, 120, Chesnutt, Charles, 4, 22, 213n9 Christianity (also Jesus Christ, Christian), 42, 50, 83, 111, 175–76, 186, 197, 201, 237n29, 238n9. See also religion civil rights movement, 10, 26, 30, 34, 161, 215n24, 231n20 Commentary, 39, 117, 217n13 Common Ground, 36, 133, 211n1 Conroy, Jack, 36, 211n1 Corber, Robert, 111, 119, 225n10 Country Place. See Petry, Ann crackers, 2, 20–21, 48, 159–81 passim, 233n2 , 234n14, 234n16, 237n30. See also whiteness Cullen, Countee, 234n13 Cuordileone, K. A., 88–89, 119, 121, 127–28, 224n3, 227n34, 230n13 Dahomean, The. See Yerby, Frank Davis, Arthur, 14–15, 215n24, 221n2 Davis, Jane, 15–16 Delany, Samuel, 114 Denning, Michael, 33–35, 37, 111, 217n10, 217n14, 229n5 Dixon, Thomas, 134, 139, 154, 168 Douglass, Frederick, 113, 152–53 Dreiser, Theodore, 107 Dubek, Laura, 221n1, 238n4, 238n6, 239n15 Du Bois, W.E.B., 12, 44, 193, 219n23 Ducille, Ann, 215n25, 233n2, 234n17 Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, 4, 22, 208, 213n9 Ellison, Ralph, 4–5, 18, 23, 25, 40, 44, 49, 51, 203–4, 208, 211–12n3, 213n10, 216n4, 217n14, 218n19, 218n22, 219n29, 219n30, 220n33, 220n35, 221n8; Flying Home and Other Stories, 211n3; Invisible Man, 203–4, 208, 219n30; Juneteenth, 212n3; “A Party Down at the...

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