Wilson, James F.,

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / James F. Wilson. - 1 online resource (272 pages). - Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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".

Open Access

The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages.


English.

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Drama--Afroamerikanische Autoren--amerikanisches--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 theātre.
Race dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Harlem Renaissance.
Noirs americains--Vie intellectuelle.--New York (État)--New York
Noirs americains dans les arts du spectacle--Histoire--New York (État)--New York--20e siecle.
Theātre americain--Histoire et critique.--20e siecle
Theātre 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--Intellectual life.--New York (State)--New York
Theater--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
African Americans in the performing arts--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
American drama--History and criticism.--20th century
American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.


New York (State)--New York--Harlem.
New York (State)--New York.


History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.