Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : : performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / / James F. Wilson.
Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies shines the spotlight on historically neglected plays and performances that challenged early twentieth-century notions of the stratification of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. On Broadway stages, in Harlem nightclubs and dance halls, and within...
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| Superior document: | Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 260 p. :); ill. ; |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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".