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Nigger Heaven
Nigger Heaven | Carl Van Vechten
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Here upper-class elites discuss art in well-appointed drawing rooms; rowdy and lascivious drunks spend long nights in jazz clubs and speakeasies; and politically conscious young intellectuals drink coffee and debate "the race problem" in walkup apartments. At the center of the story, two young people - a quiet, serious librarian and a volatile aspiring writer - struggle to love each other as their dreams are slowly suffocated by racism.
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JazzFeathers
Nigger Heaven | Carl Van Vechten
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Mehso-so

#JubilantJuly

This must be the most #controversial book l own. Certainly it was when it came out in the 1920s, both because of the title (but l still see people not spelling the entire title even today) and because the author was a white man writing black characters.

I don't see the story to be controversial at all. I find it quite conventional, actually. Not bad, but nothing special either

Loreen I read this in grad school. I had to get it through interlibrary loan so you can image the fun I had ordering and picking it up. I think the most #controversial thing about this story is the title. 🤷‍♀️ 7y
JazzFeathers @Loreen l think the same. The story itself is quite a classic romance 7y
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