From Harlem to Paris
earliest edition we have, 1991 University of Illinois Press, 1991 358 pages
This plodding, academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers--Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.--to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than in America. Fabre ( The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright ) shows that French/black American affinity started in pre-Civil War New Orleans (and not, as the title suggests, in Harlem), when illegitimate mulatt...
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