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  Index

  Abernathy, Ralph David

  Abyssinian Baptist Church (Harlem)

  African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem

  African Heritage Cookbook, The (Mendes)

  “African Negritude—Black American Soul” (Jeanpierre)

  Africa Today

  Agassiz, Elizabeth

  Agassiz, Louis

  agie el dulce (chili con carne)

  agricultural experiment stations

  Akan people

  Alabama State College

  Ali, Muhammad

  Allen, William

  American Dietitian Association

  Amerindians

  Amy Ruth’s (Harlem)

  Angelou, Maya

  Angola

  Arawak people

  arbis

  Archibald-Good, Victoria

  Arkansas

  Armstrong, Louis

  La Arriba (Tarrytown)

  artisans

  ashes, for cooking

  Asian food

  Atlanta, Georgia

  Atlanta Journal

  Atlanta University

  Atlanta University Center (AUC)

  Atlantic foodways

  Atlantic slave trade; slave provisions on ships

  Ball, Charles

  bananas

  Banks, Nettie C.

  Baraka, Amiri

  Barbados

  barbecue

  Bar Harbor (Ossining)

  Barksdale, Marcellas C. D.

  Barnett, Ella

  Barrio, Renaldo

  Barry’s Grill (Greensboro)

  bars; Caribbean influence

  bartering

  Bath, Broom, and Bible

  Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio

  beans; bean pie; black-eyed peas (cowpeas); Dab-a-Dab; gongo beans (pigeon peas)

  Belton, Frank

  Ben Ammi, Rabbi

  Ben’s Chili Bowl (District of Columbia)

  Bi
afra region (Nigeria)

  Birdland

  Birth of a Nation, The

  black arts movement

  Black Collegian

  black-eyed peas (cowpeas)

  Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook, The

  black nationalism

  Black Panther Party

  Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

  black power movement

  Blassingame, John W.

  Bloomberg, Michael

  bodegas

  Bodegas (Tarrytown)

  Body and Soul program (National Cancer Institute)

  boll weevil

  bonavist

  Bond, Julian

  Bon Goo Barbecue (Harlem)

  bonne-bouche

  Boswell, Christopher

  Bowman, Liz

  Bowser, Pearl

  boxers

  box lunches

  brabacots

  Bradshaw, Rudolph

  Braithwaite, Kwame

  Brazil

  breads; cassava “bammy,”; corn bread; cornmeal; crackling bread; hoecakes; Kangues; made with corn and sweet potatoes; ponap; pone bread; spoon bread; technology for baking; West African cookery; yam foo foo; ‘yam foo foo

  breakfast

  Bremer, Fredrika

  brilliant generation

  British foodways

  Brooks, Wendell

  Brown, H. Rap

  Brown, James

  Brown, William Wells

  Brown v. Board of Education

  Bryant’s Place (Memphis)

  Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power (Williams-Forson)

  bunkhouses

  Burgess, Mary Keyes

  Burkett, Henry “the Black King,”

  Byrd, William

  café pico

  calabash

  California, northern

  Callahan, Ed

  canned food

  canning

  Canot, Theodore

  Capone, Al

  Cardwell, Barbara Ann

  Caribbean; African foodways in; African-influenced cuisines; Arawak people; slave rations

  Caribbean immigrants: interethnic relationships with African Americans; migration, first wave; migration, 1930s and 1940s; migration, 1950s and 1960s; shared characteristics of second wave immigrants; youth culture and influence on African Americans

  El Caribe (Harlem)

  Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Ture)