![]() The reader discovers the drafted soldiers, traveling artists, and exiled intellectuals who, from the Great War and early twenties to the close of the twentieth century, have built the story-perhaps the myth-of a Black Paris.Īfrican American performers famously flocked to enjoy the carefree Jazz Age in Montmartre and most Harlem Renaissance artists dwelled in the French capital. 2 Fabre, the founder of African American studies in France, described Stovall’s book as “the first comprehensive chronicle of the changing yet steady presence of African American creators of culture in France during our century.” 3 Paris Noir unfolds as a chronological journey through the destinies of African Americans who left their native land to come to France. ![]() I n 1996, a decade after M ichel F abre’s seminal work, La Rive noire: de Harlem à la Seine, 1 Tyler Stovall, a professor of French History at the University of California at Berkeley, published Paris Noir, African Americans in the City of Light. ![]()
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