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