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INDEX
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Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 122, 201n19, 204–5n26, 210n44, 212n51
Addams, Jane, 151, 219n33
Africa, Pam, 204n26
Africa, Ramona, 204n26
African American Pioneers of Sociology (Saint-Arnaud), 177n8
African American Religious Thought (West and Glaude), 212n53
The African American Theatrical Body (Colbert), 180n23
African Jazz-Arts Society and Studios (AJASS), 206n30
Afro-American League, 213n4, 220n37
Against Epistemic Apartheid (Rabaka), 177n8
Al-Amin, Jamil Abdullah. See Brown, H. Rap
Alexander, Michelle, 67, 154
Alexander II, assassination of, 213n2
Alger, Horatio, 17, 18
Ali (Brother), 136
Alinsky, Saul, 100, 195n15
Allen, Gay, 27
American Anti-Slavery Society, 214–15n12
American Evasion of Philosophy (West), 171–72n27, 174n41, 181n28
American Slavery As It Is (Weld and Grimké), 147, 214n12
Amos, 117, 179n19
Arac, Jonathan, 28
Arie, India, 136
Aristotle, 25, 182n34
Armstrong, Louis, 50, 78, 107
Arnold, Matthew, 61
Assange, Julian, 4
Assing, Ottilie, 19, 169n17, 208n36
Aurelius, 182n34
Austin, Junius Caesar, Sr., 156
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Johnson), 30, 174n47
Avakian, Bob, 136, 212n51
Badu, Erykah, 136
Bailey, Nellie, 136, 212n50
Baker, Ella, 2, 3, 34, 89–108, 154, 194n10; and “age of Occupy,” 89, 91, 92–93, 95; as agnostic, 127; and anarchism, 92; background of, 93; Black prophetic witness of, 137; and charismatic (“messianic”) leadership model, 91, 93, 94, 102, 104–5; charismatic personality of, 106–7, 197n22; and collectivism, 201n19; and cooperative movement, 193–94n5; and council Communist tradition, 92; critique of King, 93–94, 104; critique of patriarchal leadership models, 91, 94–95, 98; and “democratic existentialism,” 95–96, 102; and democratic form of leadership, 90–91, 96–97, 99, 100, 102, 106; on “democratic time” vs. “market time,” 99–100, 107, 130; ethos of service, 91–92, 94, 96–97, 102, 104–5, 107; FBI surveillance of, 196n17; as freedom fighter, 90; and Fundi (documentary), 106–7, 108, 197n24; and gender issues, 94, 98; grassroots organizing of, 89, 91, 99, 103, 105; historical neglect of, 89–90, 106; influence on Stokely Carmichael, 194n9; legacy of, 91, 92, 102, 105, 106, 197n23; and love-ethic, 107; as “organic intellectual,” 95; organizing style of, vs. that of King, 101-4; organizing style of, as threat to oligarchy, 101; pacifism of, 127; on Puerto Rican independence, 108, 197–98n27; radicalism of, 102–3, 108, 197n26; on socialism, 197n25; and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 97, 98, 188n19; and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 97, 98, 99, 103; view of organizations, 97; and young people, 97–98
Baker, General Gordon, Jr., 122, 203–4n25
Baldwin, James, 7–8, 127, 135, 211n49; on religion, 208–9n38
Ball, Thomas, 168n4
Balzac, Honoré de, 57, 182n34
Baraka, Amiri (Le Roi Jones), 86, 119, 131, 135, 202n20, 204n27, 206n30, 206n32, 211n48, 220–21n41
Barber, William, 81, 191n37, 197n23
Barnett, Ferdinand, 149, 151, 158, 213n6, 221n42, 222n48
Beckett, Samuel, 57, 84, 85
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 179n19
Belafonte, Harry, 136
Benjamin, Walter, 45, 178n12
Bercovitch, Sacvan, 72
Berry, Mary Frances, 100
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 158–59, 223n50
Biggie. See Smalls, Biggie
Black Agenda Report, 136, 212n50
Black Bolshevik (Haywood), 132–33, 210–11n45
The Black Flame (Du Bois), 41
Black Folk (Du Bois), 176n7
Black Liberation Army (BLA), 205n27
Blackmon, Douglas A., 36
Black Panther Party, 116, 119, 122, 128, 148, 188–89n24, 190n30, 201–2n19, 204n26, 205n27, 205n28, 215–16n19; and West, 73. See also New Black Panther Party
Black Power (Carmichael and Hamilton), 187n14
Black Reconstruction (Du Bois), 56, 181n28, 210–11n45
“Black Strivings in a Twilight Civilization” (West), 42, 56, 181–82n30, 182n32
Blassingame, John, 100
Blum, Edward, 58–59
Boundary 2 (journal), 28
Bourdieu, Pierre, 7, 85, 192n44
Bové, Paul, 28
Boyd, Herb, 131
Brath, Elombe, 122, 206n30
Briones, Matthew, 136
Broch, Hermann, 58
Brown, H. Rap (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin), 122, 206n30
Brown, James, 49, 50, 78, 115
Brown, John, 14, 60, 116, 190n36
Brown, Wren Troy, 136
Buddha, 60
Buell, Lawrence, 27, 173n36
Bullins, Ed, 205n27
Bunche, Ralph, 36
Burns, Robert, 22, 170n18, 170n19, 207–8n36
Byron, George Gordon (Lord), 22, 25, 170n19, 175n49, 207–8n36
Caesar, Shirley, 107
Campos, Pedro Albizu, 108, 197n27
Candide (Voltaire), 24, 171n25
Cannon, Katie Geneva, 136
Carby, Hazel, 154
Carlyle, Thomas, 26, 61, 173n32
Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Ture), 69, 77, 94, 122, 187n14, 194n9, 203n24, 205n28, 205n30
Carson, Johnny, 128
Carter, Jimmy, 198n27
Chekhov, Anton, 56, 57, 84, 102, 103, 179n19, 195–96n19
Chivers, Walter, 69, 186n13
Chomsky, Noam, 84
Cicero, 25
Clarke, John Henrik, 51
Clausewitz, Carl von, 103, 196n20
Clay, Henry, 16, 18, 31
Cleaver, Eldridge, 130
Clinton, Bill, 87
Clinton, George, 49, 50, 51, 78,
129
Cobbett, William, 26, 147, 172n28
Cockrel, Ken, 122, 203–4n25
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 25
Coles, Romand, 91, 99, 193n3
Collins, Bootsy, 49, 51, 78
Collins, John, 30, 174n45
Coltrane, John, 20, 21, 127, 179n19
Coltrane, Ravi, 136
Cone, James Hal, 117, 120, 136, 200n14, 203n22
Cortés, Ernesto, 100, 195n15
Covey, Edward, 35, 170n19
Cowper, William, 25
Crusade for Justice (Wells), 148, 152, 213n3, 217n27
“The Damnation of Women” (Du Bois), 54
Darkwater (Du Bois), 54, 179n20, 179–80n21
Darrow, Clarence, 126, 208n37
Darwin, Charles, 59
Daughtry, Herbert, 80, 190n36
Davis, Angela, 13, 77, 94, 154, 167–68n2, 190n31, 211n47, 218n29
Dawkins, Richard, 59
Day, Dorothy, 92, 194n7
Deacons for Defense, 116, 148
Dead Prez, 136
The Death of Virgil (Broch), 58
Debs, Eugene, 76, 159, 189n28
December 12 movement, 122, 206n29
Mos Def, 136
Democracy Matters (West), 50, 179n19, 189n28
Dewey, John, 42, 68
Diderot, Denis, 24, 171n25
Digga, Rah, 136
Dislocating Race and Nation (Levine), 29–30
Dix, Carl, 136, 212n51
Dixon, Bruce, 136, 212n50
Dorsey, Thomas A., 156
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 56
Douglass, Anna, 17, 19
Douglass, Frederick, 11–38, 71; and Abolitionist movement, 2, 18, 26, 30; as activist, 35, 37–38; on African Americans’ identification with America, 22–23; as agnostic, 21, 126–27, 169–70n17; and annexation of Santo Domingo, 29–30; and Byron’s influence, 22, 170n18, 170n19, 175n49; and Carlyle, 26; and Chicago World’s Fair, 156, 220n36, 222n46; and Christianity, 20–22; education of, 19–20; Emancipation as end of, greatest influence, 12–13; and Emerson, 173n34, 173n36; and Enlightenment era, 21–22; fight against slave breaker, 35; and William Lloyd Garrison, 18; and grassroots organizing, 91; and Rutherford B. Hayes, 14, 168n5; and Patrick Henry, 175n50; and humanism, 21–22; and imperialism, 29–31; influence on American culture, 12, 37; and Robert Ingersoll, 207–8n36; as intellectual, 25–26; Jim Crow silence of, 14, 37; leadership of, 95; and Lincoln, 11, 31; on Lincoln, 14; on Lincoln statue, 168n4; against lynching, 168n3; as marshal of the District of Columbia, 14, 168n5; on master-slave relationship, 17; and Melville, 27–28, 173n38; as member of an elite, 15–16, 36; as minister to Haiti, 15, 32; as narcissist, 96; as orator, 12–13, 16, 37; as “organic intellectual,” 26; origin of name, 19; and Wendell Phillips, 18; as product of his time, 12; relevance today, 31; as “representative” American, 15–16, 27; as Republican, 13–15, 168n5; and Ruskin, 172n30; self-confidence of, 96; and “self-made man” myth, 16–19; and Wells, 156, 220n36, 222n46; and wives, 13, 16, 17, 19; as women’s-rights supporter, 13, 15. See also individual works
Dream Defenders, 197n23
Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 54, 180–81n25, 220–21n41
Du Bois, W. E. B., 2, 23, 38, 41–63, 71, 73, 78, 84, 141, 148, 154, 158; academic neglect of, 177n8, 177–78n9; as activist, 42, 50, 52–53; on African Americans’ “special role,” 46, 47; as agnostic, 58–59; and American exceptionalism, 181–82n30; and “American Gibbon,” 54, 55; “American optimism” of, 56–57, 181–82n30; bourgeois values of, 78; and Communism, 62; and The Crisis, 53; as cultural elitist, 48, 51, 53; and John Dewey, 42; domestication of, 43; Douglass’s impact on, 12, 37; and ethos of service, 54; and Founding Forty, 216n21, 218n30, 222n47; and grassroots organizing, 91; humanism of, 61; influenced by German culture, 57, 61; as intellectual, 41–42, 44, 176n6; internationalism of, 61–62, 220–21n41; on Jim Crow, 51; leadership of, 95; legacy of, 42, 46, 54–55, 61; on lynching, 214n7; and Marxism, 45, 47, 54, 56, 176n7, 181n28, 183n41; and metaphor of cave, 55–56, 181n26; and modernism, 56–58; as narcissist, 96; and neglect of Russian literary tradition, 56–57; on “Negro art,” 178n11; on “Negro cooperative movement,” 179n15; and “new church” concept, 60; as New Englander, 49, 179n18; as “organic intellectual,” 42; as pioneer of historical revisionism, 210–11n45; as pioneer of sociology, 177n8; political naïveté of, 45–46, 53, 178n13, 180n24; political transformation of, 132, 144, 145, 176n7, 178–79n14; and popular culture, 47–50, 52–53, 58; on racial caste system, 55–56, 181n26; radicalism of, 43–44, 50, 51, 54–56; and rejection of America, 56, 182n31; and religion, 58–60, 126, 179n17; self-confidence of, 96; and the Soviet Union, 183n41; in the South, 179n17, 179n18, 214n7; and spirituality, 59–60; and “Talented Tenth,” 50–51, 53–54, 180n24; and theatrical presentations, 52–53, 180n23; on US empire, 42–45, 49; and Booker T. Washington, 43–44, 141; and Wells, 216n22, 218n30, 222n47; on Richard Wright, 182–83n37; and Malcolm X, 46–47. See also individual works
Dumas, Alexandre, 182n34
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 115
Dusk of Dawn (Du Bois), 12, 37, 43, 55–56, 176n6, 178n13, 178n14, 179n15, 179n17, 179n18, 180n23, 181n26, 193–94n5, 214n7
Duster, Alfreda, 216–17n24
Ebony Repertory Theatre, 136
Edelman, Marian Wright, 83, 192n42
E-40, 136
Eliot, George (Marian Evans), 21
Eliot, T. S., 58
Ellington, Duke, 73, 78
Ellison, Ralph, 58, 179n19
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 26–27, 173n34, 173n36
English Traits (Emerson), 27
The Essence of Christianity (Feuerbach), 169n16, 169n17
Fanon, Frantz, 33, 57, 97, 171n23, 190n30, 206n30
Fard, Wallace D., 198–99n6
Farrakhan, Louis, 116, 200n13
Faulkner, William, 114
Feuerbach, Ludwig, 21, 169n16, 169–70n17
Fiasco, Lupe, 136
The Fire Next Time (Baldwin), 7–8, 209n38
Forbes, James, Jr., 94
Ford, Glen, 136, 212n50
Fortune, T. Thomas, 142, 158, 213n4, 214n11
Foucault, Michel, 177n8
Franklin, Aretha, 51, 107, 130
Franklin, C. L., 50
Franklin, John Hope, 62, 73
Frazier, E. Franklin, 82
The French Revolution (Carlyle), 26
Freud, Sigmund, 56, 178–79n14
The Future of the Race (Gates and West), 56
Gaines, Kevin, 150
Gandhi, Mohandas, 72, 186n12
Garrison, William Lloyd, 18, 37, 143, 169n9
Garvey, Marcus, 113, 116, 129, 131–32, 156, 157, 181–82n30, 198n4, 198–99n6, 222n48
Garvey, Marcus, Sr., 116
Garvin, Victoria, 154, 220–21n41
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 5
Gibbon, Edward, 42, 54–55, 176n5
Giddings, Paula, 213n6, 216n23, 221–22n43, 222n47
The Gift of Black Folk (Du Bois), 47
Glaude, Eddie, 136, 212n53
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 57
Gore, Dayo, 220–21n41
Gorter, Herman, 92, 194n8
Gramsci, Antonio, 6–7, 95, 124, 171–72n27; and concept of “organic intellectual,” 6, 9, 25, 26, 66, 95, 123–24, 157, 171–72n27
Grant, Joanne, 99, 197n24
Grant, Ulysses, 29
Grayson, John, 22, 171n20
Greenwald, Glenn, 136, 212n52
Griffin, Farah Jasmine, 136
Griffin, Julia, 19
Grimké, Angelina, 147, 214–15n12
Grimké, Sarah, 214–15n12
Guevara, Che, 190n30, 211n49
Haig, Alexander, 144
Hamer, Fannie Lou, 34, 75, 102–3, 154, 189n25, 192n47, 194n9, 206–7n33
Hamilton, Charles V., 187n14
Hamm, Lawrence, 136, 212n52
Hampton, Fred, 74, 188–89n24
Hanchard, Michael, 136
Harding, Vincent, 81, 189n27
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Harris, Leonard, 136
Harris, Trudier, 217n26
Hathaway, Donny, 73
Hayes, Rutherford B., 14, 168n5, 174n43
Haynes, Frederick Douglas, III, 81, 191n37
Haywood, Harry, 132–33, 210–11n45
Hazlitt, William, 26, 61, 172n29, 172–73n31
Hedges, Chris, 136, 212n52
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 169n16
Heidegger, Martin, 86
Henry, Patrick, 35, 175n50, 210n39
On Heroes and Hero Worship (Carlyle), 26
Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 66–67, 184–85n8
Higginbotham, Evelyn, 150
Himes, Carl Wendell, Jr., 189n27
His Day Is Marching On (Du Bois), 180–81n25
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 176n5
Hitchens, Christopher, 59
Hobbes, Thomas, 98
Hobson, John A., 56, 181n29
Holiday, Billie, 49, 78, 130
hooks, bell, 152
Hoover, J. Edgar, 205n28
Horne, Gerald, 136, 180–81n25
Hose, Sam, 45, 144, 145, 214n7
Howard, M. William, Jr., 81, 191n37
Huggins, Ericka, vii, 119, 201n18, 201n19
Hutton, Bobby, 74, 188–89n24
Ice Cube. See Jackson, O’Shea
Immortal Technique, 136
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 126, 207–8n36
Isaiah, 25
Jackson, Javon, 136
Jackson, Jesse, 94
Jackson, Mahalia, 156
Jackson, O’Shea, 78
Jakes, T. D. (Thomas Dexter), 79–80, 190n34
James, William, 5, 42
Jefferson, Thomas, 72
Jesus Christ, 60, 116, 117, 200n14, 208–9n38
Johnson, James Weldon, 30, 174n47
Johnson, Lyndon, 75
Jones, Clarence B., 72, 202–3n21
Jones, Le Roi. See Baraka, Amiri
Jordan, Michael, 82
Joyce, James, 58
Kafka, Franz, 57, 58
Kant, Immanuel, 24, 171n25
Karenga, Maulana, 135, 211n48
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 60, 183n41
Kelley, Robin D. G., 136
Kennedy, Robert F., 187n15