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

Call Number

  • 810.9896 J671 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2024.

Physical Description

133 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Audience

Grades 10-12 Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR).

Summary

"From New York Times-bestselling author of All boys aren't 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"--

Notes

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.

Added Authors

Charly Palmer