Author: Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780882582092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Chronicles the development of noted private and public black collectors and collections, and investigates the state of contemporary collecting. Also discusses black-related memorabilia as collectibles and material culture, and offers suggestions for establishing and preserving private collections. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814321577
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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A biography of the pioneering collector whose work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture.

Author: Laura Helton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231559542
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history, these bibliophiles, scrapbookers, and librarians created an enduring set of African diasporic archives. In building these institutions and amassing abundant archival material, they also reshaped Black public culture, animating inquiry into the nature and meaning of Black history. Scattered and Fugitive Things tells the stories of these Black collectors, traveling from the parlors of the urban north to HBCU reading rooms and branch libraries in the Jim Crow south. Laura E. Helton chronicles the work of six key figures: bibliophile Arturo Schomburg, scrapbook maker Alexander Gumby, librarians Virginia Lee and Vivian Harsh, curator Dorothy Porter, and historian L. D. Reddick. Drawing on overlooked sources such as book lists and card catalogs, she reveals the risks collectors took to create Black archives. This book also explores the social life of collecting, highlighting the communities that used these collections from the South Side of Chicago to Roanoke, Virginia. In each case, Helton argues, archiving was alive in the present, a site of intellectual experiment, creative abundance, and political possibility. Offering new ways to understand Black intellectual and literary history, Scattered and Fugitive Things reveals Black collecting as a radical critical tradition that reimagines past, present, and future.

Author: Charles L. Blockson
Publisher: Quantum Leap Publisher (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Beyond a memoir, the author provides an authoritative portrait of an African-American man growing up in America. Nearly every aspect of African-American life is covered. Readers will come to know major personalities in his life: W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jackie Robinson, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, Alice Walker, etc. Unusual aspects of black culture, like playing the numbers and following superstitions, are also discussed.

Author: Janet Sims-Woods
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625851790
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley, helped create a world-class archive known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and cemented her place as an immensely important figure in the preservation of African American history. Wesley's zeal for unearthing materials related to African American history earned her the name of "Shopping Bag Lady." Join author, historian and former Howard University librarian Janet Sims-Wood as she charts the award-winning and distinguished career of an iconic archivist.

Author: Edmund Lester Pearson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Anne Newport Royall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Pamela Newkirk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429934832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the pantheon of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of the men and women who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the 1700s to the twenty-first century, from slavery to the war in Iraq. The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters, this book includes the thoughts of politicians, writers, and entertainers, as well as those of slaves, servicemen, and domestic workers. From a slave who writes to his wife on the eve of being sold to famous documents like Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," these writings illuminate struggles and triumphs, hardships and glory, in the unforgettable words of the participants themselves. Letters from Black America is an indispensable addition to our country's literary tradition, historical understanding, and self-knowledge.