xii, 358 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages [345]-348.
Contents
The New Orleans connection -- Early visitors : preachers and abolitionists -- After emancipation : the "talented tenth" in Paris -- W.E.B. Du Bois and World War I -- Langston Hughes and Alain Locke : jazz in Montmartre and African art -- Countee Cullen : "the greatest francophile" -- Claude McKay and the two faces of France -- Jessie Fauset and Gwendolyn Bennett -- And others too -- From the new Negro to Negritude : encounters in the Latin Quarter -- "Making it" in postwar
