T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of French and African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the coeditor of Black France/France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness and the translator of a collection of Paulette Nardal's essays, Beyond Negritude: Essays from Woman in the City, also published by SUNY Press.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
The Women
Map of Bricktop's Paris
Map Key

Book I. Bricktop's Paris

Introduction: The Other Americans, 1919-1939

1. Les Dames, Grand and Small, of Montmartre: The Paris of Bricktop

2. The Gotham-Montparnasse Exchange

3. Women of the Petit Boulevard: The Artist's Haven

4. Black Paris: Cultural Politics and Prose

5. Epilogue: "Homeward Tug at a Poet's Heart": The Return

Appendix: "Negro Dance," Opus 25, No. 1, Nora Douglas Holt

Book II. The Autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith or Miss Baker Regrets

Foreword: Gained in Translation?
Alice Randall

Preface: History's Marginalia, Autofictional Mysteries, and a Fondness of Matters French
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

The Autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, or Miss Baker Regrets
Ada "Bricktop" Smith and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Glossary (Book II)
Notes to Book I
List of Archives and Libraries
Selected Bibliography
Index to Book I