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Joy goddess : A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance Cover Image Book

Joy goddess : A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance / A'Lelia Bundles.

A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance (portion title)
Bundles, A'Lelia Perry, (author.).

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"Dubbed the "joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s" by poet Langston Hughes, A'Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker and the author's great-grandmother and namesake, is a fascinating figure whose legendary parties and Dark Tower salon helped define the Harlem Renaissance. After inheriting her mother's hair care enterprise, A'Lelia would become America's first high profile black heiress and a prominent patron of the arts. Joy Goddess takes readers inside her three New York homes -- a mansion, a townhouse, and a pied-a-terre -- where she entertained Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, Florence Mills, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, W.E.B. DuBois, and other cultural, social and intellectual luminaries of the Roaring Twenties. Now, based on extensive research and Walker's personal correspondence, her great-granddaughter creates a meticulous, nuanced portrait of a charismatic woman struggling to define herself as a wife, mother, and businesswoman outside her famous mother's sphere. In Joy Goddess, A'Lelia's radiant personality and impresario instincts -- at the center of a vast, artistic social world where she flourished as a fashion trendsetter and international traveler -- are brought to vivid and unforgettable life." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1416544429
  • ISBN: 9781416544425
  • Physical Description: xix, 363 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2025.

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Includes biographical references (pages 271-346) and index.

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Walker, A'Lelia, 1885-1931.
Bundles, A'Lelia Perry > Family.
Walker, C. J. Madam, 1867-1919 > Family.
Art patrons > United States > Biography.
African American businesspeople > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American arts.
Socialites > Biography.
Harlem Renaissance.
Heiresses > Biography.
New York (State) > Biography.
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Informational works.
Biographies.

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