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Author:

Bernard, Emily, 1967-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiii, 358 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Criticism and interpretation.
African Americans--New York--New York--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0300121997 (cloth : alk. paper) :
9780300121995 (cloth : alk. paper) :

LCCN:

2011034190

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)