Laura Helton

Scattered and Fugitive Things

How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

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Produktbeschreibung

Scattered and Fugitive Things tells the stories of the Black collectors who dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life, traveling from the parlors of the urban north to HBCU reading rooms and branch libraries in the Jim Crow south.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780231212755
• ISBN-10: 0231212755
• Artikelnr.: 70140870

Autorenporträt

Laura E. Helton is an assistant professor of English and history at the University of Delaware. She is a coeditor of the digital humanities project "Remaking the World of Arturo Schomburg."

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Value, Order, Risk: Experiments in Black Archiving
1. Thinking Black, Collecting Black: Schomburg's Desiderata and the Radical
World of Black Bibliophiles
2. A "History of the Negro in Scrapbooks": The Gumby Book Studio's
Ephemeral Assemblies
3. Defiant Libraries: Virginia Lee and the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies
4. Unauthorized Inquiries: Dorothy Porter's Wayward Catalog
5. A Space for Black Study: The Hall Branch Library and the Historians Who
Never Wrote
6. Mobilizing Manuscripts: L. D. Reddick and Black Archival Politics
Epilogue
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index