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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Hovedforfatter: Wilson, James F. (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Serier:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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".