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

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Label

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

Title remainder

a portrait in black and white

Statement of responsibility

Emily Bernard

Title variation

Portrait in black and white

Creator

• Bernard, Emily, 1967-

Subject

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

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.52

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3543.A653

LC item number

Z59 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography