The Scene of Harlem Cabaret

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations

Introduction: Against Uplift: Performance, Literature, and the Queer Harlem Renaissance
Chapter 1: American Cabaret Performance and the Production of Intimacy
Chapter 2: The Scene Of Harlem Cabaret: 1926 and After
Chapter 3: Closing Time: Langston Hughes and the Queer Poetics of Harlem Nightlife
Chapter 4: Re-reading Du Bois Reading McKay: Uplift Sociology and the Problem of Amusement
Chapter 5: Lena Horne’s Impersona
Afterword: Irrealizing the Queer Harlem Renaissance

Notes
Bibliography
Index