The Sellout Characters Listed With Descriptions

THE SELLOUT
Characters By Chapter

EDITOR:
Jeffrey Hale

CH	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION
Pro	Baraka		Silverback gorilla.
	Dred	Scott	Enslaved African American man in the United States.
	Hampton	Fiske	The narrator's lawyer and old friend. Aka: Hamp.
	Jean	Valjean	Protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.
	Muhammad	Ali	American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist.
	Pat	Boone	American singer.
	Gerry	Mulligan	American saxophonist.
	Janis	Joplin	American singer-songwriter.
	Eric	Clapton	English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
	Toni	Morrison	American novelist.
	Ronald	Reagan	40th U.S. President.
	Benjamin	Kubelsky	American comedian. Aka: Jack Benny.
	Kirk	Douglas	American actor, filmmaker, and author. Aka Danielovitch.
	Jerry	Lewis	American comedian.
	Dean	Martin	American singer.
	Max	Baer	American boxer.
	Max	Schmeling	German boxer.
	Sammy	Davis, Jr.	American singer, dancer, actor, comedian and activist.
	Mike	Tyson	American boxer.
			THE SHIT YOU SHOVEL
1	Carl	Jung	Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
	Anna	Freud	Austrian psychoanalyst - youngest child of Sigmund Freud.
		Watson	One of the behaviorists.
		Rayner	One of the behaviorists.
	Little	Albert	Nine-month-old baby.
	Neil	Young	Canadian singer-songwriter.
	Kitty	Genovese	Woman who was brutally murdered outside of her apartment.
	Kenneth	Clark	African-American psychologist.
	Mamie	Clark	African-American psychologist.
	Martin Luther	King, Jr.	American Christian minister and activist.
	Malcolm X		American Sunni minister and human rights activist.
	Harriet	Tubman	American abolitionist and political activist.
	Mahatma	Gandhi	Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist.
	Booker T.	Washington	Great Educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute.
	Warren	Bennis	One of the authors of Planning of Change.
	Kenneth	Benne	One of the authors of Planning of Change.
	Robert	Chin	One of the authors of Planning of Change.
	Carl	Garfield	Rapper Aka: Kilo G.
3	Milton	Friedman	American economist.
	Foy	Cheshire	The co-founder of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals.
	Murray	Flores	Police Captain.
	Edward	Orosco	Undercover police officer.
		Medina	Police officer.
	Bill	Russell	American former professional basketball player.
	Laurel	Lescook	Student from Key Biscayne, Florida.
	Suzy	Q	A nanny.
4	Rebecca 1		Foul-mouthed teenager.
	Charles John	Huffam	English writer and social critic. Aka: Charles Dickens.
	Oscar	Wilde	Irish poet and playwright.
	Marcus	Garvey	Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist and orator.
	Professor	Farley	Intro to agronomy teacher.
	George Washington	Carver	American agricultural scientist and inventor.
	Gregor	Mendel	Scientist.
	Bridget	Sanchez	The narrator's childhood acquaintance. Aka: La Giggles.
5	Hominy	Jenkins	An elderly man and extreme manifestation of Uncle Tom.
	Uncle	Tom	Character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
	Buckwheat	Thomas	American child actor. Aka: Billie Thomas.
	Harry	Belafonte	American singer.
	Sidney	Poitier	American-Bahamian actor.
	James	Dean	American actor.
	Marilyn	Monroe	American actress.
	Marpessa D.	Dawson	The narrator's childhood sweetheart and on/off girlfriend.
	Darla		One of the characters from The Little Rascals.
	Alfalfa		One of the characters from The Little Rascals.
	Mickey		One of the characters from The Little Rascals.
	Porky		One of the characters from The Little Rascals.
	Chubby		One of the characters from The Little Rascals.
	Froggy		One of the characters from The Little Rascals.
	Butch		One of the characters from The Little Rascals.
	Wally		One of the characters from The Little Rascals.
	Spanky		One of the characters from The Little Rascals.
	Tasha		One of the narrator's father's teaching assistants.
	Gary	Coleman	American actor.
	Shirley	Temple	American actress.
	Eddie	Munster	Fictional character on the CBS sitcom.
	Brooke	Shields	American actress.
6	Scarlett	O'Hara	Gone with the Wind character.
	Sunshine	Sammy	The original Little Rascal.
			THE DUM DUM DONUT INTELLECTUALS
7	Kelsey	Grammer	American actor.
	Mark	Twain	American writer.
	Franz	Fanon	French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher.
	King	Cuz	Local gangster = member the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals.
	Curtis	Baxter	King Cuz's former name.
			EXACT CHANGE, OR ZEN AND
			THE ART OF BUS RIDING AND RELATIONSHIP REPAIR
9	Guy	Laroche	French high-fashion designer.
	MC	Panache	Local gangster and Marpessa's husband.
	Bret Easton	Ellis	American author.
	John	Wayne	American actor. Aka: Duke.
	Jimmy	Cliff	Jamaican musician.
	Kristy	McNichol	American actress.
	Gerhard	Richter	German visual artist.
	David	Hammons	American artist.
	Elizabeth	Murray	American painter.
	Jean-Michel	Basquiat	American artist.
	Erich Maria	Remarque	German novelist.
	Nakeshia	Raymond	The narrator's quiz bee opponent.
10	Rodney Glen	King	American construction worker turned writer and activist.
	Laura	Jane	Hires by the narrator to dance with Hominy.
	Barbra	Streisand	American singer.
	Whoopi	Goldberg	American actor.
	Al	Green	American singer.
			City Lites: An Interlude
	Susan	Silverman	Matchmaker from Sister Cities Global.
			TOO MANY MEXICANS
11	Charisma	Molina	Marpessa's best friend.
	Nestor	Lopez	The narrator's former childhood friend.
	Sheila	Clark	Young black student at Chaff Middle School.
	Mr.	Edmunds	Math specialist.
12	Miss	Crabtree	Character from Our Gang shorts.
	Eva	Braun	Adolf Hitler's wife.
13	Clyde		Black attendant at the gas station in Mississippi.
	Rebecca 2		The one whom the narrator's father seduces in Mississippi.
	Eli	Whitney	American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.
14	Stevie	Dawson	Marpessa's younger brother.
15	Lori		One of the Lopez kids.
	Dori		One of the Lopez kids.
	Jerry		One of the Lopez kids.
	Charlie		One of the Lopez kids.
	Cipriano	Martínez	Half-Salvadoran, half-black boy. Aka: Candy.
	Kristina		Chaff Middle School student.
			APPLES AND ORANGES
17	Lewis	Latimer	Inventor and patent draftsman for the light bulb and telephone.
	Tom	Cruise	American actor and film producer.
	Richard	Pryor	American stand-up comedian.
	Michael	Gallegos	Sixth-grader from Charisma's school.
18	Oscar	Zocalo	The narrator's lab partner at Riverside.
19	Jon	McJones	Foy's friend.
20	Eduardo	Nájera	Mexican basketball player.
	Tahnee	Robinson	American basketball player.
	Earl	Watson	Basketball coach.
	Shoni	Schimmel	American basketball player.
	Orlando M.	Valdez	American-Mexican basketball player.
	Kara	Walker	American contemporary painter, silhouettist and film-maker.
	Kathleen	Battle	American operatic soprano.
	Patrick	Ewing	American-Jamaican basketball player.
	Lee	Morgan	American jazz trumpeter.
	Fran	Ross	American author.
	Johnny	Otis	American singer.
21	Johnny	Unitas	American football player.
22	Tony	Curtis	American film actor.
	Nick	Nolte	American actor, producer, author, and former model.
	Ethan	Hawke	American actor, writer, and director.
	Gene	Wilder	American actor.
	George	McFarland	American actor. Aka: Spanky.
	Tommy Lee	Jones	American actor and filmmaker.
	Mark	Wahlberg	American actor.
	Tim	Robbins	American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and musician.
	Stepin	Fetchit	American film actor.
	George W.	Bush	43rd U.S. President.
	Al	Jolson	American singer, comedian, and actor.
	Betty	Boop	Cartoon character.
	Butterfly	Davis	Girl at LA Festival of Forbidden Cinema. Aka: Topsy.
	Mason	Reese	Former child actor.
	Leonard	Maltin	American film critic.
23	Suzy	Holland	One of the Dickens Five.
	Hannah	Nater	One of the Dickens Five.
	Robby	Haley	One of the Dickens Five.
	Keagan	Goodrich	One of the Dickens Five.
	Melonie	Vandeweghe	One of the Dickens Five.
	Sheila	Clark	Young black student at Chaff Middle School.
	Buzz	Aldrin	American engineer and a former astronaut and fighter pilot.
	Mark	Torres	Little League game player.
	Dwight D.	Eisenhower	34th U.S. President.
	Judge	Nguyen	The judge at the narrator's trial.
			UNMITIGATED BLACKNESS
24	Fred	Manne	The courtroom illustrator.
	Rick	Rubin	American record producer.