| Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light |  | Author: Tyler Stovall
Publisher: Mariner Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 820,819
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 358
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0395901405
EAN: 9780395901403
ASIN: 0395901405
Publication Date: May 21, 1998
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Product Description
Paris Noir tells the fascinating history of American expatriates who chose to live in Paris in the twentieth century. An avant-garde and tightly knit community of black American writers, painters, musicians, and political exiles discovered that Paris gave them the artistic, racial, and emotional freedom denied to them back home. Paris Noir describes the wary negotiations between this unique community and the ongoing social, political, and artistic changes affecting black Americans, an exchange that continues to this day.
Amazon.com Review
Significant numbers of black Americans went to France for the first time in World War I as part of the U.S. armed forces and discovered a country where they were free of the strictures of racism. This comprehensive look at black Americans' historical affection for Paris in the 20th century covers literary figures like Richard Wright, entertainers like Josephine Baker and jazz musicians like Sidney Bechet and Kenny Clarke, as well as black academics, scientists and businessmen who found new lives in Paris. This is an important, and welcome book.
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