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A man with a passion for the dangerous, subversive, and avant garde; who eschewed the middle brow and loved the urbane and modern. Known in his life not just as a man of taste, but a tastemaker, someone who set the tone for elite cultural society in his lifetime; the white author, critic and photographer Carl Van Vechten became enchanted with the Harlem Renaissance, approached Black cultures as a source of ideas that he could take and exploit, and perpetuated racist stereotypes in his work. \nVisit our website at badgayspod.com for an episode archive, T-shirts, and a link to our Patreon.\n----more----\nSOURCES:\n\nBernard, Emily. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White. 0 edition. Yale University Press, 2013.\nHolmes, David G. \u201cCross-Racial Voicing: Carl Van Vechten\u2019s Imagination and the Search for an African American Ethos.\u201d College English 68, no. 3 (2006): 291\u2013307. https://doi.org/10.2307/25472153.\nSanneh, Kelefa. \u201cWhite Mischief.\u201d The New Yorker, February 17, 2014. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/17/white-mischief-2.\nWhite, Edward. \u201cThe Making of an American.\u201d The Paris Review (blog), May 14, 2014. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/05/14/the-making-of-an-american/.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014. The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America. 1st edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.\nWoolner, Cookie. \u201c\u2018Have We a New Sex Problem Here?\u2019 Black Queer Women in the Early Great Migration.\u201d Process: A Blog for American History (blog), October 24, 2017. http://www.processhistory.org/woolner-black-queer-women/.\n\xa0\n\n\n\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.