Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

by James F. Wilson

Book Overview

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 private homes sponsoring rent parties, African American performers of the 1920s and early 1930s teased the limits of white middle-class morality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472117254
• ISBN13: 9780472117253
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"