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271 Abolitionism, 6, 7, 17-23, 29 Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 112, 162-63, 215n7 Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (Hooper), 105 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 105 “Aframerica Today” (Schuyler), 92 African American men: Johnson on masculinity of, 5, 54, 72-87; negative stereotypes of, 31, 55, 217n42; and primitivism, 7-8; Richardson on masculinity of, 244n83; “Sambo” versus “Nat” or “Buck” stereotype of, 31-32, 217n42; Schuyler on masculinity of, 6; sexuality of, 19, 31-32, 168, 185, 217n42, 221n96; sidewalk jostling of white women by, 61, 223n21; violence against, by Ku Klux Klan, 38, 40; White on masculinity of, 14, 64-70, 224n43. See also African Americans; Black beast; Interracial sex; Lynching; Rape; Slavery African American women: lynching of, 51, 61, 63; negative stereotypes of, 217n42; and prostitution , 25-26, 216n17; relationship between white and black femininity, 196; sexuality of, and Jezebel stereotype, 25-26, 45, 66, 69, 175, 196-97, 217n42, 221n96; violence against, by Ku Klux Klan, 38, 40; Wright’s relationships with, 243n79. See also African Americans; Interracial sex; Rape; Slavery African Americans: civil rights for, 37, 63-64; disfranchisement of, 3, 39, 41, 43; education of, 41, 43; migration of, from South to North, 10-11, 186, 225n54; pseudoscientific or Darwinian arguments on deficiencies of, 42; racist paternalists’ view of, after Reconstruction , 39; radical racism against, in 1890s, 3, 39, 43-44; social equality for, 5, 13, 36, 37, 39, 43, 44. See also African American men; African American women; Interracial sex; Lynching; Segregation; Slavery Africans, sexuality of, 25, 216n22 Aftermath (Burrill), 52 Along This Way (Johnson), 1-2, 5, 71, 72, 76, 78, 227n71 Amalgamation, 36. See also Miscegenation American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 217n36 The American Mercury, 105, 117-18 An American Tragedy (Dreiser), 242n66 American Writers Congress, 166 Ames, Jessie Daniel, 149 Anderson, George McCullough, 218n50 Anderson, Sherwood, 117, 233n60 Andrews, William, 22, 28, 34, 77 Anglo-Saxon Clubs, 89, 103, 230n27 Antilynching bill, 52, 71, 167, 222n4 Antilynching campaigns, 4-6, 46-53, 61-63, 70, 71, 98, 112, 134, 149, 164-66, 222n4. See also Lynching Antimiscegenation. See Miscegenation Apel, Dora, 239n3 Arbery, Glenn Cannon, 238n46, 239n61 Arnold, Edwin T., 170 Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 52, 149, 165-66 Atlanta riot (1906), 54-61, 82, 142, 146 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Johnson): African American women in, 227-28n84; alternate title of, 74, 77; attacks on, 227n79; badman character in, 84-85, 111, 132, 183, 191, 195; complexity of narrative structure of, 76; deaths of white women in, 74, 84, 86, 120, 133, 195; first-person narrator of, 74, 76-77, 226-27nn64-65; interracial sex in, 5, 71, 74, 79-87, 95, 97, 120, 180-81; lynching in, 75, 81-82, 84-85, 227n81; narrator’s marriage in, 85-86; passing theme of, 71, 75-87, 96, 97, 110, 117, 120, 121, 189, 191; problematic elements pertaining to black masculinity in, 71, 76, 82-87, 110-11, 227n82, 227-28n84; Index 272 Index The Autobiography (continued) psychological realism of, 71, 74, 76; publication dates of, 74-75, 77, 110; and redemption of black masculinity from black beast image, 14, 54, 72-87, 141; schoolhouse crisis in, 58, 118; trickster motif in, 74, 77, 85, 191; white half-sister of narrator in, 83, 228n85; white standards of beauty in, 83-84, 227-28n84 Aycock, Charles Brantley, 43 Badman character: in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 84-85, 111, 132, 191, 195; compared with trickster, 121; in Light in August, 15, 91, 111, 119-33, 191; in Native Son, 191; in Toomer’s fiction, 123-24, 191, 233-34n72 Baker, Houston A., Jr., 10, 191 Baldwin, James, 182-83, 188, 208 Ball, Charles, 29, 32-34, 38, 133 Band of Angels (Warren), 163, 215n7, 223n16 Baraka, Amiri, 133, 207 Bates, Ruby, 135-36, 158 “Becky” (Toomer), 86, 124 Bell, Bernard, 76 Berzon, Judith R., 57-58, 117, 212n20, 223n16 Bibb, Henry, 22 “Big Black Good Man” (Wright), 187 “Big Boy Leaves Home” (Wright), 187, 202 Bilbo, Theodore, 220n85 Birth of a Nation, 41, 71, 86, 180, 211n8, 219n70, 225n50 Birthright (Stribling), 64 Bishop, Ferman, 238n46 Black beast: and Atlanta riot (1906), 55, 57; Blair on, 37; and Harlem Renaissance, 9, 12-13, 50; and identity formation, 14-15; and interracial sex generally, 6-8; in literature generally , 6, 8-9, 207-9; and primitivism, 7-8; in protest literature, 13, 14, 46-50, 74, 79-83, 138, 141, 167-68, 183...
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