Negrophilic

These photographs, in social and historical conjunction with the black celebrity photos, as well as with much of the literature Van Vechten himself wrote prior to 1932, exemplify an attempt to satisfy and to resolve a conflicted need to legitimate his negrophilic sympathies publicly and to satisfy his homoerotic desires privately, while laying claim to an "enlightened" engagement in contemporary notions of the primitive and, therefore, in the modern.

Poe condemned Poems on Slavery as “intended for the especial use of those negrophilic old ladies of the north” who were so cozy with Longfellow and William Ellery Channing, leader of the Unitarian church, to whom the volume was dedicated.

[…]; by the notion that jazz provided otherwise inaccessible timbral resources, in keeping with Varèse's words about Charlie Parker; and by a negrophilic conflation of diverse African diasporic traditions, which dovetailed with Varèse's long-standing attraction both to Latin American sounds and to the trope of the New World “noble savage.