as setting for film
authenticity of
author’s support of
complexity and diversity of
criticisms of
gangsta rap
jazz and
juvenocracy and the culture of violence
on black men in prison
origins and development of
racial justice and the imprisonment of rappers
sexism and sexuality of
thug life
Tupac Shakur’s contribution to
use of “nigger
Hobbes, Thomas
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Holmes, Urban T.
Home, symbolic
Homicide
homicide rate of black men
imprisonment of Everett Dyson-Bey
of prominent black men
statistics
Homoeroticism
Homophobia
Homosexuality
alleged homosexuality of Malcolm X
black identity and disenfranchisement
bourgie blacks and gay self-identity
Dennis Rodman as masculine/feminine symbol
eroticization of white supremacy
homophobia of the religious community
nomenclature of
religion and
sacred scriptures as guide to homosexual relationships
sexual healing through the Bible
theology of homoeroticism
Hook, Sidney
hooks, bell
Hopper, Dennis
Horton, Willie
House Party (Hudlin and Hudlin)
Houston, Cissy
Houston, Whitney
Howard Beach
Hudlin, Reginald and Warrington
Hughes, Langston
Hume, David
Humility
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hybrid women
Hypervisibility of black youth
Ice Cube
The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man’s Racism, Sexism, and Aggression (Bradley)
Ice-T
Identity, black
black modernists
essence of black culture
home and the architecture of identity
importance of Congo Square to
in jazz
Lee’s portrayal in film
legislation of black music
Michael Jackson
MichaelJordan
portrayed in Michael Jackson’s videos
privacy and identity in urban settings
rap as social commentary on
renewing the debate over defining
self-identification
sexual identity and
with white supremacist overlay
Identity, self
Identity, white. See Whiteness
Identity politics
Ignatiev, Noel
I May Not Get There with You (Dyson)
Immigrants, European
Improvisational intentionality
Improvisational music
Income gap
Institutional expression of whiteness
Intellectuals
author’s intellectual development
hip-hop and jazz
reasons for becoming
Reed’s antipathy towards
Internet: visions of Tupac Shakur
Interracial sex
Invisible Man (Ellison)
Irigaray, Luce
The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (Cress- Welsing)
Islam
Italians, as denigrators of blacks
Jackson, Jesse
intellectualism and education
preaching style
presidential campaign
Vanessa Bell Armstrong and
Jackson, J.H.
Jackson, Mahalia
Jackson, Michael
James, C.L.R.
James, Mrs.
Jameson, Fredric
Jazz
Jazz Age
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffries, Leonard
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jews as denigrators of blacks
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnson, Lyndon
Jones, Ingrid Saunders
Jones, Paula
Jones, Quincy
Jones, Star
Jones, William Augustus
Jordan, Michael
Juice (1992)
Justice Talking (radio program)
Juvenocracy
Kallen, Horace
Karim, Benjamin
Keith, Damon
Kelley, Robin D.G.
Kennedy, Robert
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Anson’s march with
as public moralist
assassination of
black nihilism
civic piety and black Christianity
Clinton’s invoking of
cultural manipulation of hero celebration
inadequacy of the vision
irony of current racism
modifying the voice and persona of
moral failings of
moral vision of
need for addressing present forms of discrimination
preaching style
sacrifices of
Spike Lee’s use of King in films
whites understanding racism
King, Richard
King, Rodney
Kirkpatrick, Douglas
Kitchen as metaphor for black exile
Knickerbockers, New York
Knight, Carolyn
Knowledge, the power of
Knoxville College
Kohl, Herbert
Kool Moe Dee
Korean Americans
Kristeva, Julia
KRS-One
Ku Klux Klan
Labor
Ladies Home Journal magazine
LaGrone, Kheven
Langer, Gary
Language
identity politics and
intellectual development
music as language
nomenclature of homosexuality
of identity
use of “nigger
The Last Year of Malcolm X (Breitman)
Latino-Americans
Learning Tree (Parks)
Lee, Spike
Lewis, David Levering
Life expectancy
Lindsay, Calvin A., Jr.
Lischer, Richard
Literacy
Gardner Taylor’s heritage
slaveowners’ control of communication
the power of knowledge
Little Richard
Locke, John
Lomax, Louis
Long, Charles
Lott, Eric
Louis, Joe
MacIntyre, Alisdair
Madison, James
Maguire, Liz
Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X (Dyson)
Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America (Perry)
Malcolm X
a psychobiography
as public moralist
as revolutionary
film depiction of
hero worship of
influence on black masculinity
“so-called Negro revolution
Malcolm X (1992)
Malcolm X: The Man and His Times (Clarke)
Malcolm X Speaks
Male bonding
Mandela, Nelson
Mandela, Winnie
Man in a Polyester Suit (Mapplethorpe)
“Man in the Mirror” (Jackson
Mapplethorp, Robert
March on Washington
Marriage: statistics for black women
Marsalis, Wynton
Martin and Malcolm and America (Cone)
Martin Luther King Plagiarism Story (Pappas),
Marty, Martin
Masculinity
black masculinity as text of identity
Boyz N the Hood
exploration in film
Massey, James Earl
Material culture
Matthews, Don
Mayfield, Curtis
McCall, Nathan
McVeigh, Timothy
Meir, Golda
Melanin, role in shaping culture
Melting pot theory
Melville, Herman
Memory, politics of
Michigan, University of
Miller, Keith D.
Ministry, author’s
Mitchell, Henry H.
Moby-Dick (Melville)
Modernism
Monster’s Ball (2001)
Montgomery bus boycott
Moonwalk (Jackson)
Moorish Temple Muslims
Moral decline
Morals and Manners Among Negro Americans (Du Bois and Dill, eds.)
Moral strangers, black youth as
Morrison, Toni
Morton, Jelly Roll
Mos Def
Moseley-Braun, Carol
Mottola, Tommy
Moynihan, Daniel
MTV
Muhammad, Elijah
Multiculturalism
Murder. See Homicide
Murray, Albert
Murray, Charles
Music
Aretha Franklin and Vanessa Bell Armstrong
author’s roots in
bebop
black music as American culture
blues
Caribbean music
disco
gospel
jazz
Mariah Carey and
nostalgia over changing forms of
ragtime
sorrow songs
whites’ control of black music
See also Hip-hop
Mussolini, Benito
The Myth of the Negro Past (Herskovits)
Naked Gun films
Nationalism
Nation of Islam
Neal, Mark Anthony
Neocolonialism
Neonationalism
New Deal
New Jack City (1991)
New jack gospel
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Republic magazine
News media
assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
black public intellectuals
racism and black intellectuals
Newton, Patricia
New York Times
New York Times Book Review
Nihilism
Northwestern University
Nostalgia, politics of
N.W.A. (Niggas With Attitude)
O’Connor, Sandra Day
Oklahoma City bombing
Omi, Michael
Operation Hope
Oprah (television program)
Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Owens, Chandler
Paper bag test
Pappas, Theodore
Parenthood
author’s experience with
Boyz N the Hood
disciplining children
Parker, Bernard
Parks, Gordon
Partisan Review journal
Patriarchy
Patterson, Orlando
Pattison, Robert
Pedophilic priests
Perception
Perry, Bruce
Perry, Edmund
Perry, Jonah
Perry, Veronica
Pet Negro system
Phallic symbolism
Phillips, William
Pigmentocracy
Pippin, James
Pius XI
Plagiarism
Plastic surgery
Plato
Pluralism, religious
Poitier, Sidney
Police brutality
author’s firsthand experience
depriving urban dwellers of privacy and identity
in Lee’s movies
personal experience versus theory
rap depiction of
Rodney King
whites’ reaction to
Political correctness
The Rlitical Legacy of Malcolm X (T’shaka)
Politics
American-Cuban relations
Clinton’s failure to address race
identity politics
King’s moral vision
of free speech
of gangsta rap
of jazz
of nostalgia
racism and music
subversive empathy
Poor white trash
Pop culture
Pop rap
Postmodernism
black modernists
convergence of rhetorical universes
defining masculinity
hip-hop as
home and identity
information glut
Michael Jackson’s postmodern spirituality
television and pop culture
Poussaint, Ann Ashmore
Poverty
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
Powell, Lewis
Prashad, Vijay
The Preacher King (Lischer)
Preaching
about sexuality
academic lecturing as
Aretha and C.L. Franklin’s vocal pyrotechnics
as one facet of identity
Black History Month
body-centered culture
role in King’s message and voice
Taylor, Gardner
See also Gospel music; Religion
Presley, Elvis
Price, Vincent
Prince
Princeton University
Prison
author’s brother’s imprisonment
limiting the pool of available black men
population statistics
sexual fantasies about
Probation Challenge (organization)
Prophetic Fragments (West)
Prophets
Pryor, Richard
Psychobiography
Public Enemy
Public intellectuals
Purity and Danger (Douglass)
Quilts
Qu’ran
Raboteau, Albert
Race
alternatives to liberal theory
as factor in college admissions
Cuban perception of
determining racial categories
explaining the Simpson trial verdict
importance of discourse on
liberal theory of
rise of black public intellectuals
Race Rules (Dyson)
Racial clarification
Racial concealment
Racial Formation in the United States (Omi and Winant)
Racial formation theory
Racial justification
Racial memory. See Nostalgia, politics of
Racism
author’s education
black sexuality and
college admissions criteria and
distorting the history of African Americans
impact on development of jazz
impact on Martin Luther King
Jeffries’s emulation of white racism
melanin theory and
on college campuses
political correctness as
pop music versus hip-hop culture
portrayal in Do the Right Thing
powerlessness of black men
rap’s portrayal of
response to the Simpson trial
Simpson case reawakening hostilities
transcending racism for humanity
See also Police brutality; White supremacy
Ragtime music
Raising Hell
Randolph, A. Phillip
Rap. See Hip-hop
Rape
“Rapper’s Delight
Ravitch, Diane
Ray, Ola
Reagan, Ronald
Red Hook Housing Project, Brooklyn, New York
Reed, Adolf
Reed, Willis
Reflecting Black (Dyson)
Reggae music
Religion
as factor in Edmund Perry’s life
author’s education and development
author’s ministry
body-centered aspect of
church-state relations
Elijah Complex award
erotic engagements with God
Everett Dyson-Bey’s conversion to Islam
evolution of character
freeing blacks from white-imposed sexual values
good and evil
gospel music
influencing public speaking
institutional expression of whiteness and white supremacy
institutions as source of misogyny and homophobia
intellectualism and
King’s moral vision
King’s vocation
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X as public moralist
Michael Jackson’s roots
power of black pulpit for effecting change
religious freedom
sacred scriptures as guide to homosexual relationships
Sampson’s influence
sexual exploitation by clergy
sexual healing of homosexuals through the Bible
sexuality and
theology of eroticism
theology of homoeroticism
the quest for black identity during turmoil
versus social transformation
See also Preaching; Spirituality
Resistance
Revolutionaries
Rhythm and blues music
Rich, Matty
Rigor of intellectual work
Riley, Teddy
Riots
Rival epistemologies
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Jackie
Robinson, Melanie
Robinson, Patricia
Rock ’n’ roll music
Rodman, Dennis
Roediger, David
Rogers, Cornish
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosaldo, Renato
Run-D.M.C.
Russell, Bertrand
Sampling (grafting of music)
Sampson, Frederick George II
Sandalow, Terrence
Scherer, Paul
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Schmeling, Max
Scholars
Schultz, Michael
Schuyler, George
Scott-Heron, Gil
Segregation
alternative affirmative action programs
jazz as weapon against
politics of memory
urban migration
Self Destruction
Self-hatred of blacks
African American film’s treatment of
homosexuals
importance of skin color in women
Senate hearing
Separate Baptists
Sexism. See Gender relations
Sexuality
body-centered culture
domestic violence of O.J. Simpson
erotic engagements with God
gangsta rap
importance of fantasy
jazz and sexual play
Kobe Bryant’s alleged sexual abuse