Tag biographical research

March 30, 2012
in African American Studies, American History, History, Literature

Eminent Biography: Emily Bernard on Carl Van Vechten’s Women

March 30, 2012
in African American Studies, American History, History, Literature

In her second piece for “Eminent Biography” Emily Bernard, author of Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White, explores the relationships of Carl Van Vechten and the many women who circled through his interracial and inter-artistic world of the Harlem Renaissance. After all, it is

February 24, 2012
in African American Studies, American History, History, Literature

Eminent Biography: Emily Bernard on Carl Van Vechten

February 24, 2012
in African American Studies, American History, History, Literature

The friendships that formed the conversations of the Harlem Renaissance and the complex ideas of the relationships between art and race were the vein of black literary life of the early twentieth century. As editor of the volume of letters, Remember Me to Harlem: The Correspondence of Langston Hughes and