Emily M Bernard

Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic...

Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships

Emily Bernard examines the complexities of interracial friendships -- white and black, Latino and white, black and Asian, black and Jewish -- in this poignant book that includes essays from Pam Houston, Darryl Pinckney, Luis Rodriguez, and Susan Straight, among others. Meet a young Italian American ...

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White

Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance is grounded in the dramas occasioned by the Harlem Renaissance, as it is called today, o...

Ploughshares Spring 2013 Guest-Edited by Major Jackson

The Spring 2013 issue of Ploughshares, edited by Major Jackson. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring...

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White

Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance is grounded in the dramas occasioned by the Harlem Renaissance, as it is called today, o...

Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs

A stunning, visual biography of Michelle Obama that finally puts her phenomenal fame into a cultural and historical context we can all understand. There has never been a First Lady like her before. While there have been a slew of Obama celebrity books, none contain the message of Deborah Willis and ...

Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships

In this unusually honest book of essays and other writings, Emily Bernard examines the complexities of interracial friendships: Latino and white, black and Asian, black and Jewish. In essays from such celebrated writers as Pam Houston, Darryl Pickney, Luis Rodriguez, and Susan Straight, among many o...

Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships

Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships

When Washington Was In Vogue

When Washington Was In Vogue

Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

Remember Me to Harlem : The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964