1926 Controversy rages among the black intelligentsia after publication of Nigger Heaven by white writer Carl van Vechten. The book glamorizes the free wheeling style of Harlem life amid the general contention that blacks are less ashamed of sex and more morally honest than whites. DuBois finds the assumptions deplorable; James Weldone Johnson, on the other hand, believes the treatment is neither scandalous nor insulting.