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Paris noir : African Americans in the City of Light / Tyler Stovall.
Author
Stovall, Tyler, 1954-2021
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1996]
© 1996
Description
xvi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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DC718.A36 S76 1996
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Subject(s)
African Americans
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France
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Paris
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History
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20th century
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Black people
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France
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Paris
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History
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20th century
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Toleration
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France
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Paris
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History
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20th century
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Liberty
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History
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20th century
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Paris (France)
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Intellectual life
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20th century
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Paris (France)
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Race relations
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History
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20th century
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Bookjacket designer
Fili, Louise
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Summary note
Paris Noir fills a grievous gap in the absorbing chronicle of American expatriates who chose to live in Paris in the twentieth century. For alongside Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and Henry Miller was an avant-garde and tightly knit community of black American writers, artists, musicians, and political exiles who found in Paris the creative and personal freedom denied them back home. A welcoming refuge for writers, Paris embraced Richard Wright, Chester Himes,
James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. A score of all-important jazz musicians lit up the city at night, from Miles Davis to Charlie Parker to Sidney Bechet, while Josephine Baker dazzled audiences with the Danse Sauvage in the Revue Negre. Leaving an equally important mark were the painters and artists who found inspiration in the Paris scene: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lois Mailou Jones, Ed Clark, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Barbara Chase-Riboud. Paris Noir brings this vibrant world to life, beginning with the doughboys who returned to Paris after World War I and moving on through the Jazz Age, the Depression, the years of the Harlem Renaissance, World War II, and the postwar boom.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Freedom overseas: African American soldiers fight the great war. Black America on the eve of war
Over there!
Encounters with the French. 2. Bringing the Jazz Age to Paris. A world safe for the Negro?
Black Montmartre: the birth of a community
Josephine Baker conquers Paris
The Harlem Renaissance overseas
Images of race in Jazz Age Paris. 3. Depression and war: Paris in the 1930s. And we all played on
Paris, gateway to Africa
Depression blues
Paris in wartime. 4. Life on the Left Bank. Paris in the age of existentialism
From Montmartre to the Left Bank: building a new Black community
African American artists return to Paris
Jazz in the Saint-Germain-des-Paris. 5. The golden age of African American literature in Paris. The politics of exile
The romance of cafes and cheap hotels
Richard Wright: expatriate and world citizen
Gifted outsiders: James Baldwin and Chester Himes. 6. New perspectives on race. The giants depart
A new Black community
A distant thunder
Color-blind France?
Expatriates and political activism
Student power in France: May 1968. 7. African Americans in Paris today. Death of a diva
Adieu, Utopia?
The world of the arts
Black professionals in Paris
Community life.
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Other title(s)
African Americans in the City of Light
ISBN
0395683998
9780395683996
0395901405
9780395901403
LCCN
96024566
OCLC
34788914
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