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First Acts: A Black Playwright Comes of Age

By Kermit Frazier

Book information

Publisher
Publishers, Inc., McFarland & Company
Year
2022
ISBN
1476688428, 1476647418, 2022011902
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6127481 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-03 02:27:23
NonfictionPER011030Performing ArtsSOC001000Sociology

Description

Playwright and television writer Kermit Frazier began life as a precocious Negro boy growing up in southeast Washington, D.C., during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. As a student at an all-Black elementary school, Kermit was selected for a newly formed honors track at a predominantly white secondary school. Traveling a complex path, Kermit tore down segregation barriers, balanced on an academic pedestal, and battled an internal war of denial against his same-sex attractions. This memoir is not a story about a young man rising from "the hood" but rather a young Black man struggling with stereotypes, identity, and mild dyslexia while straddling two middle-class worlds, Black and white, and striving not to be everyone's "other."

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