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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance - A Portrait in Black and White (Paperback)
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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance - A Portrait in Black and White (Paperback)
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A groundbreaking inquiry into the life of the audacious Carl Van
Vechten, and his singular and singularly controversial
contributions to the Harlem Renaissance Carl 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
1920s, 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."
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