Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies, performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance, James F. Wilson
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Label
Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies, performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance, James F. Wilson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.governmentPublication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
James F. Wilson
Series statement
Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance
Sub title
performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
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"