Flamboyants : the queer Harlem renaissance I wish I'd known

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Title:

Author:

Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985- author.

Added Author:

Palmer, Charly, illustrator.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Date:

2024

Publication Information:

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2024.

Physical Description:

133 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780374391249

Abstract:

"From New York Times-bestselling author of 'All boys are'nt blue' comes an illuminating set of profiles of Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance, interspersed with personal essays and spot illustrations by a Steptoe Award-winning illustrator"-- Provided by publisher.

General Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction -- "Secret not secret" -- Langston Hughes -- Countee Cullen -- Josephine Baker -- "In this essay..." -- Richard Bruce Nugent -- Ma Rainey -- Alain Locke -- Bessie Smith -- "We get lit" -- Gladys Bentley -- Claude McKay -- Jimmie Daniels -- "Can you answer me this?" -- Ethel Waters -- Zora Neale Hurston -- "Flamboyants" -- Recommended reading.

Subject Term:

Harlem Renaissance -- Juvenile literature.

African American artists -- Juvenile literature.

African American authors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African American entertainers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African American gay people -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African American arts -- Juvenile literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Essays.

Language:

English