| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 377 pages) : illustrations, color map, portraits |
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French teachers |
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University and college faculty members |
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African Americans |
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Women |
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Tennesseans |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The other Americans, 1919-1939 -- Les Dames, grand and small, of Montmartre : the Paris of Bricktop -- The Gotham-Montparnasse exchange -- Women of the Petit Boulevard : the artist's haven -- Black Paris : cultural politics and prose -- "Homeward tug at a poet's heart" : the return -- Appendix: "Negro Dance," Opus 25, No. 1 / Nora Douglas Holt -- Gained in translation? / Alice Randall -- History's marginalia, autofictional mysteries, and a fondness for matters French / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting -- The autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker regrets / Ada "Bricktop" Smith and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. |
| Summary |
Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression. 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.--Publisher website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bricktop, 1894-1984.
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Bricktop, 1894-1984. |
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African American women -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
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African American women. |
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France -- Paris. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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African American women -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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Women entertainers -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
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Women entertainers. |
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Nightclubs -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Nightclubs. |
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France. |
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Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
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Americans. |
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Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Montmartre (Paris, France) -- Biography.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
African American women in Paris between the two World Wars |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. Bricktop's Paris 9781438455013 (DLC) 2014010396 (OCoLC)889666307 |
| ISBN |
9781438455020 (electronic book) |
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143845502X (electronic book) |
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9781438455013 |
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1438455011 |
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