"Negrophilia" means love of black culture, a term used by the Parisian avant-garde in the 1920s as a provocative challenge to bourgeois values. The author explores the phenomenon and its effect upon the music, art, design, fashion, literature and journalism of that time.

Explores the historical ambiguities and racial complexities of 1920s Paris and describes the short-lived craze that overtook the city when black culture became highly fashionable and a sign of being modern.