Publication

2015 - State University of New York Press, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

94,250 words, Guess

Page Count

377 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Better World Books9781438455013
  • Better World BooksT2-DVQ-663
  • Open LibraryOL27176959M

Classifications

  • DDC305.48/8960730944361
  • LCCDC718.B56 B85 2015
  • LCCDC718.B56B85 2015

Description

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. 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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Other Editions

  • Bricktop's Paris: African American women in Paris between the two World WarsState University of New York Press2015-01-01

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