TSEM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: James Van Der Zee, Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Van Vechten
10 Dec 2017
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Its beginnings, the writers and artists, and aaron douglas. Sold hair and beauty products for african americans. White money and support was essential to the movement. Powerful white publishers like alfred and blanche knopf never took an. They all came with an agenda apartment in 55th street. interest in black literature without first consulting carl van vechten. Van vechten only recommended writers he know personally. Walter white called his apartment the midtown branch of the. This negrophilia extended to life magazine which published . Harlem became a white playground, a tourist attraction. Tours that exploit the culture of the region. First work by a white writer that featured an african american protagonist. A (black) escaped convict plunders an island, becoming very rich. Portrays the stereotype that when placed in certain situations blacks will resort back to their african ways or primitive ways.
