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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a portrait in black and white / Emily Bernard

By:

Bernard, Emily, , 1967-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press , c2012.Description: xiii, 358 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

97803001219950

Other title:

Portrait in black and white

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

813.52 BER

LOC classification:

PS3543.A653 Z59 2012

Contents:

Introduction -- Pt. 1. A niche somewhere -- Pt. 2. Nigger heaven -- Pt. 3. Letters from Blacks -- Author's note.

Summary: By the time of his death in 1964, Carl Van Vechten had been a far-sighted journalist, a best-selling novelist, a consummate host, an exhaustive archivist, a prescient photographer, and a Negrophile bar non. A white man with an abiding passion for blackness.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	813.52 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		028424

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Pt. 1. A niche somewhere -- Pt. 2. Nigger heaven -- Pt. 3. Letters from Blacks -- Author's note.

By the time of his death in 1964, Carl Van Vechten had been a far-sighted journalist, a best-selling novelist, a consummate host, an exhaustive archivist, a prescient photographer, and a Negrophile bar non. A white man with an abiding passion for blackness.

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