Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance

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.

subjects: African Americans in literature,  Intellectual life,  Criticism and interpretation,  Harlem Renaissance,  African Americans,  Van vechten, carl, 1880-1964,  African americans, new york (state), new york,  New york (n.y.), intellectual life

People: Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964)

Places: New York (State),  New York,  Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Times: 20th century