Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / James F. Wilson.
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TextSeries: TriangulationsPublisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2010]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 0472026968
- 9780472026968
- American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- African Americans in the performing arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- PS338.N4
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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