LEADER 03762nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910789912003321 005 20230801222425.0 010 $a1-280-06208-8 010 $a9786613519887 010 $a0-300-18329-1 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300183290 035 $a(CKB)2670000000176233 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24464967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000622645 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11434921 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622645 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10642623 035 $a(PQKB)10657800 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420797 035 $a(DE-B1597)485911 035 $a(OCoLC)784957824 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300183290 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420797 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10546756 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL351988 035 $a(OCoLC)923597396 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000176233 100 $a20110907d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCarl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance$b[electronic resource] $ea portrait in black and white /$fEmily Bernard 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (368 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-12199-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. A Niche Somewhere --$t2. Nigger Heaven --$t3. Letters from Blacks --$tAuthor's Note --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aCarl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance is grounded in the dramas occasioned by the Harlem Renaissance, as it is called today, or New Negro Renaissance, as it was called in the 1920's, when it first came into being. Emily Bernard focuses on writing-the black and white of things-the articles, fiction, essays, and letters that Carl Van Vechten wrote to black people and about black culture, and the writing of the black people who wrote to and about him. Above all, she is interested in the interpersonal exchanges that inspired the writing, which are ultimately far more significant than the public records would suggest. This book is a partial biography of a once controversial figure. It is not a comprehensive history of an entire life, but rather a chronicle of one of his lives, his black life, which began in his boyhood and thrived until his death. The narrative at the core of Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance is not an attempt to answer the question of whether Van Vechten was good or bad for black people, or whether or not he hurt or helped black creative expression during the Harlem Renaissance. As Bernard writes, the book instead "enlarges that question into something much richer and more nuanced: a tale about the messy realities of race, and the complicated tangle of black and white." 517 3 $aPortrait in black and white 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xIntellectual life 606 $aHarlem Renaissance 607 $aHarlem (New York, N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aHarlem Renaissance. 676 $a813/.52 700 $aBernard$b Emily$f1967-$01543798 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789912003321 996 $aCarl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance$93797430 997 $aUNINA