First Acts : A Black Playwright Comes of Age.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frazier, Kermit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frazier, Kermit.

African American dramatists--Biography.

African American dramatists.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated 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:

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue 1

Drive 5

Snow 34

Pee 52

Reading Apprehension 68

How I Danced 82

Fire 99

Of Crickets and Boys 108

Ironing 141

Geometry 150

Flux: An Afterword 167.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Frazier, Kermit First Acts

ISBN:

9781476647418