Bernard, Emily , 1967-

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a portrait in black and white Portrait in black and white / Emily Bernard - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press , c2012. - xiii, 358 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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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Van Vechten, Carl , 1880-1964 --. Criticism and Interpretation


African Americans----Intellectual life
African Americans in literature
Harlem renaissance


Harlem (New York)----20th century----Intellectual life

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