Flamboyants : the queer Harlem renaissance I wish I'd known
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.
Subjects
- Harlem Renaissance.
- African American artists.
- African American authors > Biography.
- African American entertainers > Biography.
- African American gay people > Biography.
- African American arts.
- 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.
- African American authors.
- African American entertainers.
- African American gay people.