Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography

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Index Page numbers for illustrations are in italics. Abolitionism, 23–26, 77, 265–66. See also Race African Americans: and the Black Aesthetic movement, 149–50; of Boston, 23–26, 77, 157–61, 265, 277; educational options for, 27–28, 88, 91–92, 94–95, 252; Ethiopianism among, 8, 112–14, 115, 117, 120– 26, 129–30; as intellectuals, 210; interracial marriage by, 66–68, 172– 75, 252–55; literary generalizations of, 141–42, 148; minstrel shows and, 32–38; mixed race, 126–28, 160–61, 162–64, 170–86, 259; passing for white, 170–72, 179–83, 207–11, 249–57, 287; political activism of, 71, 73, 165–68, 267–68; segregation of, 45, 73; slavery of, 23–24, 94–95; social equality for, 65–66, 70–71; and study of African civilization, 211–20; violence against, 277–78; women of 1880–1920, 96, 97–110, 137–49; in world history, 75, 79, 115 African American Theater, 35 Africa That Never Was, The, 204, 211 Afro-American Women Writers, 12 “After Many Days,” 249, 252–54 Age, 87 Allen, Elizabeth P., 21 Allen, Jessie, 22 Allen, Sarah A., 4, 7, 11, 35, 43, 60, 61–64. See also Pseudonyms used by Hopkins American Anti-Slavery Society, 265 American Colonization Society, 24 Ammons, Elizabeth, 3, 4, 9, 12, 14, 15, 151–52, 179, 240–41 Andrews, William L., 251 Anti-Lynching Society of Afro-American Women, 267 Appeal, 26 Appiah, Anthony, 127 Appointed, 62 Aristocracy, 43 “As the Lord Lives, He Is One of Our Mother’s Children,” 260–61 Atlanta Riot of 1906, 111 Atlantic Monthly, 50, 54, 130, 141, 149, 279, 281 Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man, The, 287 Baker, Houston A., 148–49 Baldwin, James, 148, 200 Baldwin, Maria Louise, 28, 97, 103 Baltimore Afro-American, 288 Bancroft, George, 200 Baptist Church, 20, 21 Barber, J. Max, 87, 111–12 357 358 Index Barnum, P. T., 213 Bederman, Gail, 189 Bernardi, Debra, 56, 100, 159 “Bernice, the Octoroon,” 255 “Beth’s Triumph,” 244–45 Bible, the, 114–15, 120–23, 130, 173–74 Birth of a Nation, The, 279 Black cultural nationalism, 8, 112–14, 120 Bland, James, 33 Blues Detective, The, 187 Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 113 Bonner, Marita, 61 Boston, African American population of, 23–26, 77, 98, 265, 277 Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 24 Boston Evening Transcript, 126 Boston Literary and Historical Association, 265 Boston riot, 73, 278–79 Boston Sunday Herald, 25 Boston Transcript, 267 Bowser, Rosa D., 104 Bradford, Joseph, 41 Braithwaite, William, 59, 93, 271, 286 Brawley, Benjamin, 178, 283–85 Brodhead, Richard, 155 Brooke, James, 118 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 12 Brooks, Preston, 267 “Bro’r Abr’m Jimson’s Wedding,” 236, 237–38 Broun, Heywood, 86 Brown, Anna Harrison, 55 Brown, John, 26, 137, 190–98, 268 Brown, Lois, 21, 22, 266, 288 Brown, William Wells: The Escape by, 41–42; Hopkins’s biographical sketch of, 76; mentioned, 5, 7, 20, 26, 30, 35, 113, 120–21, 122, 123, 126, 136, 149, 171, 179 Brown[e], Gertrude Dorsey, 235, 250, 256, 262 Bruce, Blanche K., 77 Bruce, John E., 61, 88 Bruce, Josephine, 110 Bryant, Jerry H., 150, 155 Buck, Pearl, 86 Bumstead, Horace, 268 Burgess-Ware, M. Louise, 249, 255 Burton, Richard, 213 “ ‘Butt-In’ Bobby,” 61 Cable, George Washington, 151, 224 Callaloo, 12 Cape Ann Weekly Advertiser, 42–43 Capitalism versus labor question, 118–20 Carby, Hazel V., 3, 12, 15, 152, 157, 179, 182, 186, 226 Carney, William H., 77 Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 137 “Case of Measure for Measure, A,” 256–57, 262 “Charles Winter Wood,” 61 Chesnutt, Charles W.: extent of writing by, 279–80; folk characters used by, 224–25, 228, 236, 239; on the Wilmington race riot, 261; mentioned, 11, 44, 67, 93, 126–28, 136, 143, 150–51, 171, 251, 285 Chicago Defender, 288 Chicago Women’s Club, 98 Childhood years of Hopkins, 19–23, 32 Chopin, Kate, 248 Christianity, 114–15, 120–23, 173–74, 187–88, 200–201, 218–19, 228 Clarence and Corinne, 281 Classical Black Nationalism, 116 Clay, Henry, 204 Clement, E. H., 267, 268 Cleopatra, 213–14 Clotel, 5, 35, 42, 149, 171, 254 Index 359 Club movement, black women’s: Hopkins’s involvement in, 96, 97–99; and white women, 107–10; writings about, 99–107 Collison, Gary, 23 Colonel’s Dream, The, 280 Colonialism, 117–18, 211–12 Color and Culture, 210 Colored American...