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Bricktop's Paris : African American women in Paris between the two World Wars / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.
Van Pelt Library DC718.B56 B85 2015
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LIBRA DC718.B56 B85 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- African American women.
- Bricktop, 1894-1984.
- Bricktop.
- African American women--France--Paris--Biography.
- Women entertainers--France--Paris--Biography.
- Women entertainers.
- Nightclubs--France--History--20th century.
- Nightclubs.
- History.
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Paris (France).
- Americans--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- Americans.
- France--Paris.
- Paris (France)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Montmartre (Paris, France)--Biography.
- Montmartre (Paris, France).
- France.
- Intellectual life.
- Manners and customs.
- France--Paris--Montmartre.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 377 pages : illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Book I Bricktop's Paris
- Introduction: The Other Americans, 1919-1939 5
- 1 Les Dames, Grand and Small, of Montmartre: The Paris of Bricktop 17
- 2 The Gotham-Montparnasse Exchange 73
- 3 Women of the Petit Boulevard: The Artist's Haven 115
- 4 Black Paris: Cultural Politics and Prose 143
- 5 Epilogue: "Homeward Tug at a Poet's Heart": The Return 155
- Appendix: "Negro Dance," Opus 25, No. 1, Nora Douglas Holt 159
- Book II The Autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker Regrets
- Foreword: Gained in Translation? / Alice Randall Randall, Alice 165
- Preface: History's Marginalia, Autofictional Mysteries, and a Fondness for Matters French / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean 171
- The Autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker Regrets / Ada "Bricktop" Smith Smith, Ada "Bricktop", T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781438455013
- 1438455011
- OCLC:
- 889666307
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