Black Face, Queer Space: the Influence of Black Lesbian & Transgender Blues Women of the Harlem Renaissance on Emerging Queer Communities
Title
Black Face, Queer Space: the Influence of Black Lesbian & Transgender Blues Women of the Harlem Renaissance on Emerging Queer Communities
Creator
Emma Chen
Description
The Harlem Renaissance was “surely as gay as it was black.” This assertion by African American historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. encompasses a largely overlooked aspect of the 1920s, and the Harlem Renaissance in particular...
Publisher
Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II, Vol. 21, Article 8
Chen, Emma. 2016. "Black Face, Queer Space: the Influence of Black Lesbian & Transgender Blues Women of the Harlem Renaissance on Emerging Queer Communities," in Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II: Vol. 21 , Article 8.
