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050 0 0 _aPS3543.A653
_bZ59 2012
082 0 0 _a813.52 BER
100 1 _aBernard, Emily
_d, 1967-
245 1 0 _aCarl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance
_b: a portrait in black and white
_c/ Emily Bernard
246 3 _aPortrait in black and white
260 _aNew Haven [Conn.]
_b: Yale University Press
_c, c2012.
300 _axiii, 358 p.
_b: ill.
_c; 25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- Pt. 1. A niche somewhere -- Pt. 2. Nigger heaven -- Pt. 3. Letters from Blacks -- Author's note.
520 _aBy 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.
600 1 0 _aVan Vechten, Carl
_d, 1880-1964
_k. Criticism and Interpretation
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_x--Intellectual life
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in literature
650 0 _aHarlem renaissance
651 0 _aHarlem (New York)
_y--20th century
_v--Intellectual life
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