Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance /

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilson, James F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Series:Triangulations.
Subjects:
1900-1999
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.
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
Sex in the theater.
Théâtre américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains dans les arts du spectacle > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > New York (État) > New York > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Sexualité au théâtre.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
DRAMA > American.
African Americans in the performing arts.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
American drama.
American drama > African American authors.
Intellectual life.
Theater.
Theater > afroamerikanisches > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Drama > amerikanisches > Afroamerikanische Autoren > Geschichte 20. Jh.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Harlem.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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