Nigger Heaven, published in 1926, for example was an attraction to whites as well to black people in America, who wanted to know something about life in the ghetto. ... Another point we should consider is the fact that there were not only black writers in Harlem, Carl van Vechten, who published Nigger Heaven, was a white writer and he was very famous, too. ...

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