Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies

performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

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Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies

performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

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English
Pages
262

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Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies: performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
2010, University of Michigan Press
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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".

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Ann Arbor
Series
Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.5209896073
Library of Congress
PS338.N4 W555 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23980823M
ISBN 13
9780472117253
LCCN
2009050344
OCLC/WorldCat
466344607

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