Bricktop's Paris
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Bricktop's Paris

African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars

  1. 398 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bricktop's Paris

African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars

About this book

2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Longlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance, in clay or on canvas, in life and in love. These women were participants in the life of the American expatriate colony, which included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Cole Porter, and they commingled with bohemian avant-garde writers and artists like Picasso, Breton, Colette, and Matisse. Bricktop's Paris introduces the reader to twenty-five of these women and the city they encountered. Following this nonfiction account, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting provides a fictionalized autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, which brings the players from the world of nonfiction into a Paris whose elegance masks a thriving underworld.

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INDEX
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Abatino, Pepito, 41, 43, 44–46, 47, 67, 148, 173, 353n66
Abbott, Robert Sengstacke, 76
AcadƩmie Julian, 98, 116
Achilles, Louis, 116
A Moveable Feast, (Ernest Hemingway), 8
ā€œAdelaide Hall New Star of Paris Night Life: Her ā€˜Big Apple’ Glows Over Rue Pigalleā€ (Langston Hughes), 17
ā€œAdventures on Roller Skatesā€ (Jessie Fauset), 73
African American GI’s, 7, 18
Alberta Hunter: A Celebration in Blues (Frank C. Taylor and Gerald Cook), 23, 351n10, 366n2
Baker, Josephine, 8, 11, 12, 13, 32, 33, 40–47, 70, 146, 147, 151, 165, 168, 350n11, 352n20, 353n50, 353n63, 353n66
Baldwin, James, 10
Being Geniuses Together: A Binocular View of Paris in the ’20s (Robert McAlmon), 35–36, 352n41
Benneteau-Desgrois, Felix, 137, 138
Bennett, Gwendolyn, 13, 86, 88–90, 93, 94–97, 100–102, 121, 130, 167, 358n41, 358n45, 359n66, 359n72
Benstock, Shari (Women of the Left Bank), 10, 350n9
Big Apple (nightclub), 8, 70, 71, 72, 356n135
Blackbirds 1926, 48, 55, 70
Blackbirds 1928, 68, 69
Blackbirds 1929, 8, 57, 70
Black Internationalism, 9, 150
ā€œBlack Parisā€ (Eslanda Goode Robeson), 15, 148–149, 151, 153
Blake, Eubie, 34, 40, 48, 95, 99
Bonner, Marita, 5
ā€œBoitelleā€ (Guy de Maupassant), 5
Bougival, 32, 70, 152
Brownie’s Book, The, 73, 74, 86
Bullard, Eugene Jacques, 22–24, 27, 28, 7...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. The Women
  8. Map of Bricktop’s Paris
  9. Map Key
  10. Book I. Bricktop’s Paris
  11. Book II. The Autobiography of Ada ā€œBricktopā€ Smith, or Miss Baker Regrets
  12. Glossary (Book II)
  13. Notes to Book I
  14. List of Archives and Libraries
  15. Selected Bibliography
  16. Index to Book 1
  17. Back Cover