Title Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / James F. Wilson.

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Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2010]

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Description	1 online resource.
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Series	Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance
	Triangulations.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."
Note	Print version record.
Summary	The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages.
Language	English.
Subject	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.
	Harlem Renaissance.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
	DRAMA -- American.
	African Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00799727
	African Americans in the performing arts. (OCoLC)fst00799740
	African Americans -- Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00799627
	American drama. (OCoLC)fst00806998
	American drama -- African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00806999
	Harlem Renaissance. (OCoLC)fst00951467
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	Race in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086506
	Sex in the theater. (OCoLC)fst01114489
	Theater. (OCoLC)fst01149217
	New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
	New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem. (OCoLC)fst01312318
	Harlem Renaissance.
	Theater -- afroamerikanisches -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
	Drama -- amerikanisches -- Afroamerikanische Autoren -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010 9780472117253 (DLC) 2009050344
ISBN	0472026968 (electronic book.)
	9780472026968 (electronic book.)
Standard No.	10.3998/mpub.1175684

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