Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / James F. Wilson.
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TextSeries: Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2010]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012Copyright date: ©[2010]Description: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type: - text
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- Drama -- amerikanisches -- Afroamerikanische Autoren -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Theater -- afroamerikanisches -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Harlem Renaissance
- Theater
- Sex in the theater
- Race in literature
- Intellectual life
- Harlem Renaissance
- American drama -- African American authors
- American drama
- African Americans -- Intellectual life
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African Americans in literature
- DRAMA -- American
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies
- Harlem Renaissance
- Sexualite au theâtre
- Race dans la litterature
- Noirs americains dans la litterature
- Harlem Renaissance
- Noirs americains -- New York (État) -- New York -- Vie intellectuelle
- Noirs americains dans les arts du spectacle -- New York (État) -- New York -- Histoire -- 20e siecle
- Theâtre americain -- 20e siecle -- Histoire et critique
- Theâtre americain -- Auteurs noirs americains -- Histoire et critique
- Sex in the theater
- Race in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Harlem Renaissance
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life
- Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans in the performing arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem
- New York (State) -- New York
Introduction: "It's getting dark on old Broadway" -- "Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer": parties, performances, and privacy in the "other" Harlem Renaissance(s) -- "Harlem on my mind": New York's black belt on the Great White Way -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, "sexual perversion," and David Belasco's Lulu Belle -- "Hottentot potentates": the potent and hot performances of Florence Mills and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've seen Harlem at its best".
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The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages.
English.
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