Talk:Negrophilia

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Article development
Possibly more on history and culture of this movement? ThomasMannFan (talk) 00:02, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I agree with first comment on expanding on the cultural and historical significance of this movement. I just added a small piece on Parisian nightlife and its social implications during this time. However, this page has the possibility for, and could use, a lot more. Maybe someone could talk about the French outlook on jazz and how it strained interracial relationships between the musicians? Or how the rise in popularity of black culture did or did not change the sociopolitical standing of French Africans? Cprent (talk) 00:10, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

It would be interesting to point out in the bal negre section that the notion of "authentic" African-inspired dances are a point of contention. The popularity of the bal negre was based largely on the white French people's search for authenticity in their interactions between races, but the bal negre seemed to be a way for whites to curate an escape into erotic fetishism or admiring a display of African dancers, without lasting interaction outside the room. A discussion about "authenticity" could support the question User:Cprent raises above...the popularity of black culture didn't change the sociopolitical standing of French Africans in a significant way. The discussion of Josephine Baker could be developed further as a case study of this argument.Mairaka (talk) 19:16, 16 November 2014 (UTC)mairaka

Is "Afrophile" a synonym of "Negrophile?"
Wikipedia used to have an article about this topic, but it was removed from Wikipedia after several editors voted to delete it. Should this word be mentioned as a synonym in this article? Jarble (talk) 21:33, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

After 1944-1945 ?
Nothing about Afro-American artists in Paris after WWII ? i.e. Boris Vian & Miles Davis ? Ted Joans & André Breton ? The Black Panthers and Jean Genet ? It seems to me that the conclusion of this article is quick and deceptive... --Marc-AntoineV (talk) 09:35, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Added to description of Josephine Baker's dancing
Using a contemporary source, I added more description to the type of dancing that Josephine Baker was doing. Tprice98115 (talk) 02:10, 4 December 2021 (UTC)tprice98115


 * I redesigned the original article into sections, added information on contributing factors, concurrent events and modern versions of the negrophilia, using academic sources and citations. I also added some imagesfrom Wikimedia commons to add some more context. --Radzsoleil (talk) 09:51, 10 December 2021 (UTC)