Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance
Subtitle: a portrait in black and white
By: Emily Bernard
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780300121995
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Harlem Renaissance; Criticism and interpretation; African Americans; Intellectual life
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pt. 1. A niche somewhere; title: Pt. 2. Nigger heaven; title: Pt. 3. Letters from Blacks; title: Author's note.