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Nigger Heaven is a novel written by Carl Van Vechten, and published in October 1926. The book is set during the Harlem Renaissance in the United States in the 1920s. The book and its title have been controversial since its publication.
Glossary of Negro Words and Phrases. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1926, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.
The plot of Nigger Heaven is fairly straightforward, devolving at times into melodrama. Its value lies in the conversations between characters, meant to reflect to the audience contemporary black opinions, regarding politics, the "race problem," arts, and entertainment.
Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. [1] He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven.
Opening on a scene of tawdry sensationalism, Nigger Heaven shifts decisively to a world of black middle-class respectability, defined by intellectual values, professional ambition, and an...
White Mischief. By Kelefa Sanneh. February 9, 2014. Van Vechten’s best-selling “Nigger Heaven” helped make Harlem hot, even as its title guaranteed a stormy reception. Photograph by Carl Van...
Carl Van Vechten is best-known today not for who he knew or what he wrote but for the title of his most famous novel: Nigger Heaven. For a white man to use that phrase—derogatory slang for the upper galleries of theaters where black people were once segregated—as the title of a novel about Harlem horrified many people, even in 1926.
