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
• | Publisher: McFarland
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 183 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 1476688427
• | ISBN-13: 9781476688428