First Acts: A Black Playwright Comes of Age

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.""

Author: Kermit Frazier
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 05/24/2022
Pages: 183
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781476688428