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189 INDEX abolitionist movement, 24, 27–29, 44, 45, 50 Act of Compromise (1877), 56–57 Allen, Norm R., Jr., 172, 174 Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (Mosley), 119, 127–49 Another Country (Baldwin), 18, 19, 99, 101, 111, 112, 118, 124–26, 130, 139 Awkward, Michael, 11 Baldwin, James, 4, 18, 19, 99–102, 106, 107, 109–20, 122, 123, 125, 126, 130, 134, 139, 149, 161, 182n2 (chap. 3) Barack and Curtis: Manhood, Power, and Respect, 153 Baraka,Amari, 172 Bell, Matthew, 115–16 Beloved (Morrison), 136 Bibb, Henry, 4, 17, 21–45, 48–53, 146, 149, 179n1 (chap. 1), 180n8, 180n10, 180n13, 180–81n14 Bibb, Malinda, 26–38, 41–43, 45, 48–53, 180n10, 181n16 Bibb, Mary Frances, 29–31, 35–37, 42, 43, 50–53 Birney, James B., 28 bisexual/bisexuality, 98, 103, 104, 106, 110, 111, 114, 118, 124, 177 Black Boy (Wright), 99 Black Christ, 78, 79, 82–85, 90 black emasculation, 41, 43, 46, 56, 57, 83, 92, 122 black feminism, 12, 15 Black Macho and the Superwoman (Wallace), 175 black male feminism, x, 12, 19, 154, 156 black male identity, 4, 5, 7–10, 18, 19, 21, 22, 26–30, 35, 36, 39, 40, 48, 49, 52–55, 58, 59, 73, 74, 77, 80, 82, 97–104, 121, 124, 128, 141, 146, 151, 156, 160, 170, 175, 180–81n14 black manhood, 4, 5, 8–10, 12–14, 17–21, 23, 24, 27, 34, 39, 40, 45, 50, 54–59, 62, 64, 69, 72, 77, 79, 80, 82, 84, 98, 100, 111, 114, 129–31, 134, 137, 142, 151–57, 172–74 “Black Man’s Place(s) in Black Feminist Criticism,A,” (Awkward), 11 black masculine identity, 4, 10–12, 18–20, 24, 29, 52, 53, 55, 98, 100, 104, 105, 109, 111, 115, 118, 124, 132–34, 153–55, 158, 173, 177 black masculinity, 3–10, 12, 13, 15–21, 23, 30, 39, 46, 52, 54–57, 60, 82, 99, 101, 118, 123, 124, 126, 128–31, 134, 139, 141, 148–50, 152–55, 158, 159, 163, 166, 170, 172, 173, 177, 180–81n14 Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality (Carbado), 11 black nationalism, 8, 55, 154, 172, 173 black women, 3, 10–12, 14, 17, 18, 26, 27, 35–37, 39–41, 43, 46, 48, 55–59, 62, 63, 69–73, 77–80, 83–86, 88, 90–92, 98, 100, 106, 117, 119, 122–25, 130, 141, 149, 152, 154, 157, 174, 175 black women’s bodies, 7, 18, 55, 56, 62, 77, 85 Bluest Eye, The (Morrison), 175 Bordering on the Body (Doyle), 32, 83 Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism (Ikard), 11 Brown, Tony, 175 Brown,William W., 38–40, 45, 46, 48, 146, 149 Butler, Judith, 157 190฀ ฀ index Carbado, Devon, 11 Carby, Hazel, 56, 57 Carmichael, Stokely [pseudo. Kwame Ture], 158, 172–74, 176 castration, 105 Chicago School, 3 Cleaver, Eldridge, 8, 122, 123, 172 Collins, Patricia Hill, 6, 11, 14, 62, 131 Color Purple, The (Walker), 175 Constructing the Black Masculine (Wallace), 17 Cooper, Frank R., 157 Craft,William and Ellen, 45, 180n6 Crouch, Stanley, 175 Crummell,Alexander, 6, 54, 151 Dark Princess (Du Bois), 18, 54, 55, 58, 61, 85, 92, 146 Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Du Bois), 18, 54, 55, 58, 78–84, 91, 173 Davis, Frank Marshall, 159 Delany, Martin, 8, 54, 151, 173 Derrida, Jacques, 7 Detroit Liberty Association, 28, 45 Detroit Liberty Party, 28 De Veaux, Masani Alexis, 14, 157 Dixon, Melvin, 9 Douglass, Frederick, 4, 7, 17, 21–27, 30, 32, 33, 36, 45, 46, 48, 53, 54, 60, 146, 149, 151, 156, 177 Doyle, Laura, 32, 83, 85 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Obama), 19, 151–78 Du Bois,W. E. B., 4, 8, 17–19, 54–99, 146, 149, 151, 152, 171, 173, 181. See also under individual titles Dunham,Ann, 158–63 Ellison, Ralph, 111, 149, 171 Enlightenment, 30, 31, 33 Farrakhan, Louis, 172 folk, the, 55, 61–67, 69, 70, 72, 74–77, 79, 84, 87, 92, 94, 95, 97, 121, 129, 151, 181n2 (chap. 2) for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf (Shange), 174, 175 Fugitive Blacksmith, or Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, A (Pennington), 38, 45–48 Garrison (slave trader), 42, 43 Garrison,William Lloyd, 177 Garvey, Marcus, 173 Gates, Henry Louis, 28 Gatewood, Silas, 29, 36, 37, 42 Gatewood,William, 29, 36, 37, 42...

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