Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance /
The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
The University of Michigan Press,
[2010]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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".