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Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 20, 197n12, 199n1 Afro (hairstyle), 51, 52, 72, 183 Alameda County Courthouse, 45, 48 Alexander, Elizabeth, 64–65 anthologies, 23–24, 109–10, 202n9 Attali, Jacques, 146–47 authenticity, 12, 14, 23, 89, 95, 118, 129, 136, 166, 193 Ayler, Albert, 25, 90, 111, 124, 132, 133–35, 140, 141, 191, 203 Ayler, Donald, 141 “back to Africa,” 10 Baldwin, James, 120 Baraka, Amiri, 39, 97, 105, 107, 123, 131, 132, 133, 134, 140, 190, 197n4, 199n6, 202n2. See also Jones, LeRoi Bennett, Lerone, 164, 172–73, 180 Benston, Kimberly, 92, 139 Bernstein, Leonard, 58–59, 61–62, 65, 67, 69, 70–71 Black aesthetic, 7, 15, 16, 22, 24, 25, 89, 93, 97, 103, 106, 110, 111, 113, 122, 129, 130, 137, 139, 191 Black Aesthetic, The, 90, 92, 97, 102, 104, 105, 110, 122, 138, 139, 141, 155 Black Arts Repertory Theater School of Harlem, 23, 70, 88, 89, 105, 106, 108, 109, 111, 140, 141, 199n6, 202n8, 202n2 Black Arts Movement, 15, 16, 18, 22–26, 89–90, 101, 104, 112, 113, 117–23, 142, 188, 190, 191, 192, 202nn10–11, 202n14; and African American music, 105–7, 131–33, 137–40, 143, 202n2; and Black Arts Repertory Theater, 88–89, 111, 202n8; and Black Fire! anthology, 101, 107, 109–10, 115–17, 137, 202n9; influence on contemporary African American culture, 92–96, 125; as reaction to Civil Rights Movement, 91–92, 97–98, 103 black consciousness, 24, 90, 138 Black Fire! An Anthology of Afro-American Writing, 24, 90, 93, 97, 99, 101, 107, 109, 110, 111, 114, 115–16, 119, 124, 130, 137, 140, 192, 202n13 black masculinity, 11, 21 black nationalists, 39, 65, 78, 98, 101, 202n10 Black Panther Party, 2, 11, 21, 22–23, 29–38, 41, 77–79, 108, 142, 173, 179, 191, 192, 197n5, 197nn10–13, 198n19– 21; cross-racial identifications with, 60, 68, 71–72, 199n2; harassed by law enforcement, 74–77, 200nn11–17; negative depictions of, 58–60, 61–62, 69, 72, 82–87; use of mass media and visual image, 17–19, 42–57, 73–74, 77, 79–81, 183–84, 198n22, 199n23, 199n25; valorization of the “brother on the block,” 12, 19–20, 42, 198n15 Black Power, 2, 4, 11, 26, 27, 69, 81, 97, 187, 188, 189, 192, 193, 197n4; and index Black Power (continued) authenticity, 4, 14, 89, 189; and Black Arts Movement, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 89, 90, 95, 110, 115, 131, 190, 191; and Black Panther Party, 12, 54; and Blaxploitation films, 90, 95, 154, 165, 168, 171, 173, 176, 179, 182, 184; and popular music, 25, 90, 95, 96, 124, 141, 142, 149, 151; relation to Civil Rights Movement, 2–3, 91, 99, 100 Black Revolutionary, 37 Black Student Union, 2, 40–41 Blaxploitation, 3, 8, 12, 22, 26, 95, 124, 153–55, 159–60, 164–66, 168–74, 176, 181, 184, 185, 191, 192, 195n5 “Blue Print for Negro Writing,” 6, 7, 105 Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music that Developed from It, 125–30, 136, 138, 143 Bogle, Donald, 164, 172, 176, 180 Brown, Elaine, 20, 21, 46, 53, 54, 72, 77, 78, 198n16, 201n19 Brown, H. Rap, 46, 47 Brown, James, 90, 125, 131, 133, 141, 151, 154, 156 Caldwell, Ben, 90, 150 California Statehouse, 50 Carmichael, Stokely, 1, 2, 3, 24, 37, 44, 46, 47, 49, 90, 97, 110, 111, 188, 195n2 Carter, Alprentice “Bunchy,” 49, 75, 96 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 2, 8, 37, 73, 97, 99 Civil Rights Movement, 1, 2, 3, 16, 18, 37, 38, 41, 50, 51, 62, 73, 87, 98, 100, 107, 109, 150, 153, 172, 189, 198n22, 201n5 Cleaver, Eldridge, 21, 44, 45, 46, 54, 73, 76, 77–78, 80, 96, 99, 100, 116, 182, 191, 201n18; Soul on Ice, 78 Coffin, Ed, 3, 10–11 COINTELPRO, 49, 75, 82, 198nn16–17, 200n11, 201n5. See also Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Coleman, Ornette, 106, 107, 124, 129, 130, 140, 190 commodification, 8, 12, 14, 52, 54–57, 117, 118, 127, 130, 137, 142, 143, 145–149, 151–54, 157, 160, 167–68, 199n25 Cooke, Sam, 125, 150–51, 152, 156 Cotton Comes To Harlem, 3, 4, 7, 10–11, 12, 17, 195n5 cross-racial identification, 62–64, 67, 72, 177 Crouch, Stanley, 24, 90, 91 Cruse, Harold, 24, 40, 89, 110, 111; Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, 39, 118, 203n7 cultural nationalists, 49, 130–31 Davis, Angela, 21, 51–52, 76, 192...

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