130 Index Abolitionism, in “The Passing of Grandison,” 40–45 Amar, Akil R., 35 Andrews, William L., 52, 55, 123 Arteaga, Alfred, 41 Bauer, Margaret, x Beloved (Morrison), 25 Bentley, Nancy, 3 Binary oppositions: appearance vs. reality, 44, 46, 75; determining false racial hierarchy, in Evelyn’s Husband, xii, 114, 119, 123; determining false racial hierarchy, in The House behind the Cedars, 51, 52, 56, 61, 63, 64; determining false racial hierarchy, in Mandy Oxendine, 88, 94, 95, 97, 98, 101, 105, 108n6; narrative and textual strategies in “The Passing of Grandison,” 39, 44, 48; in Paul Marchand, F.M.C., 71, 72. See also Mask; Passing Birth of a Nation, The (Griffith), xi, 67–80 passim, 81n7 Blight, David, 55–56, 61, 65 Bontemps, Arna, 3 Brazil, and racial amalgamation, 121–22. See also Race amalgamation: Evelyn’s Husband Brodhead, Richard, 11, 20n2 Buchanan, Pat, 23 Business Career, A, 123, 124n3 Byerman, Keith, xi, 28 Callaloo, 32, 37n3 Carter, Julian B., 114–15 Chesnutt, Charles W.: and Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, 81n7; compared to Marrow of Tradition, 70; and conjure stories, as polemic, x, xi, 4, 5, 6, 24–37, 45–48; and Oscar Micheaux, 81n6, 81–82n9; and plantation tradition, 33; protest against showing Birth of a Nation, 69, 81n7, 81n9; and race slavery, 71; rhetorical diplomacy, 11; teaching methodologies, 12; teaching performance, 17; views on education, 13; and white readers, 95, 113. See also specific works Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels (Simmons), xii Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, 69 Cobb, James C., 34 Code Duelo, 73–74 Code Noir, 73, 84, 90 Code of Honor of the Old South, 73 Colonel’s Dream, The, and social class, 120, 121 Confederate flag, and racial controversy, 23–25, 30–34, 36 Conjure Woman, The, 4, 24, 25, 45 Coski, John M., 31, 32, 33 Crane, Gregg D., 53 Cutter, M6artha J., x–xi Daniel, Constance E. H., 10 “Dave’s Neckliss,” 4–6 Davis, Jefferson, 32 Delmar, P. Jay, 49n4, 7, 63 Derrida, Jacques, 74 Dimock, Wai Chee, 25, 35, 37 Discobolus, 118, 119, 125n14 Dixon, Thomas, 67, 68, 70, 81n4 Douglass, Frederick, 4, 6, 19, 20, 25, 42 Du Bois, W. E. B., 3, 17, 81n8 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 3, 123, 125n20; and signifying, 113 Ellison, Ralph, 9, 10, 18, 21n10, 65n1 Essentialism, xi, 39, 77, 87, 88, 90, 91 Eugenics, 118, 119, 125n14 European immigration, and white identity in Evelyn’s Husband, 113, 121 Evelyn’s Husband, xii, 110–24 131 Index Faulkner, William, 5 Fauset, Jessie, 48n2 Fayetteville, North Carolina, 10 Fayetteville State University, 10 Ferguson, SallyAnn, x, 66, 85, 125 Fienberg, Lorne, 46 Fifteenth Amendment, 112 Finney, Charles Grandison, 43 Forman, James, Jr., 34, 35 Fourteenth Amendment, 53, 112 Freud, Sigmund, 51, 61, 62, 65; and The Interpretation of Dreams, 57, 58, 62, 64, 65 “Future American, The,” 84, 85, 115, 116, 122, 125n18 Genovese, Eugene D., 108n8 Gibson, Donald, vii, 93–108 Gibson, Scott, xii, 108n7 Gilmore, Michael T., 65n1 Gone with the Wind, 35 “Goophered Grapevine, The,” 24, 25, 26 Green, William R., 81 Greene, J. Lee, 117 Griffith, D. W., xii, 67. See also Birth of a Nation, The Hackenberry, Charles, 108n2 Harris, Cicero, 9, 20n3 Harris, Robert, 9, 10, 19, 20n4 Hildredth, Richard, 39 House behind the Cedars, The, xi; and caste, 59; and Freudian dream theory, 51–65; and “The Future American,” 84–86; and medieval Romance, 57–60; and Oscar Micheaux, 82n9; and passing for white, 51–65, 84–86, 113, 115, 116; and Mark Twain, 58–59. See also Binary oppositions; Mask; Passing Hurst, Fanny, 74. See also Imitation of Life Imitation of Life, 74–75 Invisible Man, The, 10, 18, 65n1 Jackson, Andrew, 43 Jarvis, Thomas, 9, 18 Johnson, James Weldon, 48n2 Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt, The, x, 11, 14, 18, 20n3, 80n1, 108n1, 110 Kafka, Franz, 5 Kappa Alpha Order, 34 Kawash, Samira, 74 Keller, Frances Richardson, 10, 20 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 65n2 Ku Klux Klan, 31, 40, 82n11 Lee, Robert E., 31 Leopard’s Spots, The (Page), 67, 68, 70 Lewis, David Levering, 81n8 Logan, Frenise, 13 Lukác, György, 7 Mandy Oxendine, xii, 93–108; compared to Evelyn’s Husband, 115, 116 Marrow of Tradition, The: and definition of whiteness, 112; as historical novel, 68 “Mars Jeem’s Nightmare,” 88–89, 90 Mask, 18, 25, 26, 27, 28, 60, 63; and narrative, 43, 44; in Paul Marchand, F.M.C., 75, 76–77. See also Binary oppositions; Passing McLaughlin...