First acts : a Black playwright comes of age / Kermit Frazier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frazier, Kermit, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frazier, Kermit.

African American dramatists--Biography.

African American dramatists.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

"Celebrated 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." Rather, this is the story of 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.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Drive

Snow

Pee

Reading Apprehension

How I Danced

Fire

Of Crickets and Boys

Ironing

Geometry.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781476688428

1476688427

OCLC:

1312654065