Title: Bricktop's Paris
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Intellectual life, Nightclubs, Americans, Women entertainers, African American women, Biography, History, African american women, Entertainers, Paris (france), biography, Clubs, Paris (france), intellectual life, Paris (france), social life and customs, Americans, france
Places: Paris, Paris (France), Montmartre (Paris, France), France
People: Bricktop (1894-1984)
Time periods: 20th century