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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg - Black Bibliophile & Collector

English · Paperback / Softback

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This is the first full biography of the pioneering black collector whose detective work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture. Born in Puerto Rico in 1874, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg came to New York militantly active in Caribbean revolutionary struggles. He searched out the hidden records of the black experience and built a collection of books, manuscripts, and art that had few rivals. Today it forms the core of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for research in Black Culture, one of the leading collections in the field.

At the center of the Harlem Renaissance, Schomburg was a generous friend of many of the writers, artists, performers, collectors, scholars, and political figures who made Harlem the capital of Black America. A contributor to the major black journals of the period, he went on to head the Negro Collection at Fisk University and became curator of his own collection in the New York Public Library until his death in 1938.

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Elinor Des Verney Sinnette is Acting Director of Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. A former staff member of The New York Public Library, a teacher of librarians from Central Harlen to Nigeria and Kenya, a consultant to UNESCO, Dr. Sinnette has long been a contributor to the study of the history and culture of black people throughout the world.


Summary

Offers a biography of the pioneering black collector whose detective work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture. Arthur Alfonso Schomburg came to New York active in Caribbean revolutionary struggles. He searched out records of the black experience and built a collection of books, manuscripts, and art that had few rivals.

Product details

Authors Elinor Des Verney Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Publisher Wayne State University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 05.09.2000
 
EAN 9780814321577
ISBN 978-0-8143-2157-7
No. of pages 278
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
Weight 407 g
Series African American Life
African American Life (Paperba
African American Life Series
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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