Word: niggerness
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...York World, which believes that Negroes in the South are strung up every day or two, despatches one of its staff men, Oliver H. P. Garrett, who is evidently quite a 'nigger lover'. . . . It is plain anybody can see he is trying to make maudlin sentiment for the colored folks who were killed by irate citizens when the South Carolina Court failed to do its duty...
Pick your winning color said Carl Van Vechten as he finished his "Nigger Heaven" and went into Childs...
...never read any of Conrad. Simply because one has chosen the oldest and not the least honorable of trades--that of voyaging--as one's life work is no indication that one is necessarily an intellectual moron. The most unlettered of common sailors can appreciate the beauty of "The Nigger of the Narcissus" far more than the most erudite of landlubbers, for he has lived the life that Conrad so masterfully described. And so--let the Conrad Memorial Library be duly honored; its function will, by the natural course of events, be fulfilled...
...NIGGER HEAVEN - Carl Van Vechten - Knopf ($2.50). Sullen-mouthed, silky-haired Author Van Vechten has been playing with Negroes lately; writing prefaces tor their poems, having them around the house, going to Harlem.^ They have been his latest fad, just as cats, perfumes, precious stones were his fads before. And now he seems to have sickened of Negroes. In this story about high and low brownskins in Harlem and Atlantic City he shows Negroes wallowing in extreme depravity. He makes the comparatively chaste, intelligent heroine most unhappy. The hero, an ambitious graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is discouraged, disillusioned...
...Nigger Mike...