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Bricktop's Paris : African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438455020
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bricktop's ParisDDC classification:
  • 305.488960730944361
LOC classification:
  • DC718.B56 -- .S537 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- The Women -- Map of Bricktop's Paris -- Map Key -- Book I. Bricktop's Paris -- Introduction: The Other Americans, 1919-1939 -- Parisian Passageways -- 1 Les Dames, Grand and Small, of Montmartre: The Paris of Bricktop -- Shuffling Along Laclede's Landing with Many Loves: Jo Baker -- "Heaven on Earth for the Negro . . . Woman": On Beauty and Letters from Paris -- Diga Diga Doing in Montmartre's Big Apple -- 2 The Gotham-Montparnasse Exchange -- 3 Women of the Petit Boulevard: The Artist's Haven -- Van Gogh's "Painters of the Petit Boulevard" and Women of the Petit Boulevard -- 4 Black Paris: Cultural Politics and Prose -- 5 Epilogue: "Homeward Tug at a Poet's Heart": The Return -- Appendix: "Negro Dance," Opus 25, No. 1, Nora Douglas Holt -- Book II. The Autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker Regrets -- Foreword: Gained in Translation? -- Preface: History's Marginalia, Autofictional Mysteries, and a Fondness for Matters French -- The Autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker Regrets -- Gangster's Paradise -- I. -- Begin the Beguine -- II. -- They strung her upon the old willow across the way -- Miss Otis regrets, she's unable to lunch today. -- Looking for Langston -- III. -- The Women's Academy -- IV. -- Old love, new love, every love but true love -- Josie, Tea, and Me -- V. -- Shadow Boxing in Babylon -- VI. -- The Game of Inspector and Saloonkeeper -- VII. -- The Feast for No Saint -- VIII. -- A Helpmate -- IX. -- A Pigeon in Our Midst -- X. -- Bracelets and Couture -- XI. -- The Pigeon's Swan Song -- XII. -- The Gang's All Here -- XIII. -- Good Evening, Heartache, and My Nerves are Bad Blues -- XIV. -- Les Misérables, or Javert and Jean(NE) Valjean -- XV. -- Pin Pin's Palace -- XVI. -- Big Red Riding Hood and the Wolf -- XVII.
The Dark Room, or A Pictorial Hymn to Aphrodite -- XVIII. -- Revelations -- XIX. -- Putting on the Ritz -- XX. -- Rendezvous in the Ninth -- XXI. -- Wolf Trap -- XXII. -- J'ai Plus Amours -- XXIII. -- Glossary (Book II) -- Notes to Book I -- List of Archives and Libraries -- Selected Bibliography -- Index to Book 1.
Summary: Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- The Women -- Map of Bricktop's Paris -- Map Key -- Book I. Bricktop's Paris -- Introduction: The Other Americans, 1919-1939 -- Parisian Passageways -- 1 Les Dames, Grand and Small, of Montmartre: The Paris of Bricktop -- Shuffling Along Laclede's Landing with Many Loves: Jo Baker -- "Heaven on Earth for the Negro . . . Woman": On Beauty and Letters from Paris -- Diga Diga Doing in Montmartre's Big Apple -- 2 The Gotham-Montparnasse Exchange -- 3 Women of the Petit Boulevard: The Artist's Haven -- Van Gogh's "Painters of the Petit Boulevard" and Women of the Petit Boulevard -- 4 Black Paris: Cultural Politics and Prose -- 5 Epilogue: "Homeward Tug at a Poet's Heart": The Return -- Appendix: "Negro Dance," Opus 25, No. 1, Nora Douglas Holt -- Book II. The Autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker Regrets -- Foreword: Gained in Translation? -- Preface: History's Marginalia, Autofictional Mysteries, and a Fondness for Matters French -- The Autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker Regrets -- Gangster's Paradise -- I. -- Begin the Beguine -- II. -- They strung her upon the old willow across the way -- Miss Otis regrets, she's unable to lunch today. -- Looking for Langston -- III. -- The Women's Academy -- IV. -- Old love, new love, every love but true love -- Josie, Tea, and Me -- V. -- Shadow Boxing in Babylon -- VI. -- The Game of Inspector and Saloonkeeper -- VII. -- The Feast for No Saint -- VIII. -- A Helpmate -- IX. -- A Pigeon in Our Midst -- X. -- Bracelets and Couture -- XI. -- The Pigeon's Swan Song -- XII. -- The Gang's All Here -- XIII. -- Good Evening, Heartache, and My Nerves are Bad Blues -- XIV. -- Les Misérables, or Javert and Jean(NE) Valjean -- XV. -- Pin Pin's Palace -- XVI. -- Big Red Riding Hood and the Wolf -- XVII.

The Dark Room, or A Pictorial Hymn to Aphrodite -- XVIII. -- Revelations -- XIX. -- Putting on the Ritz -- XX. -- Rendezvous in the Ninth -- XXI. -- Wolf Trap -- XXII. -- J'ai Plus Amours -- XXIII. -- Glossary (Book II) -- Notes to Book I -- List of Archives and Libraries -- Selected Bibliography -- Index to Book 1.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

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