Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

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Year of Publication
2017
Contributors Author: Vanessa Kimberley Valdés
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Number of Pages
190 pp.
Publisher
State University of New York Press
City
Albany, NY
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ISBN
9781438465135
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Contents: 

  • Introduction: The silence and meaning of it all
  • "Patria y libertad": Schomburg and Puerto Rico
  • The diasporic race man as institution builder
  • Afro-Latinx chronicles: Schomburg's writings
  • Witness for the future: Schomburg and his archives
  • "Furtive as he looks": the visual representation of Schomburg
  • Conclusion: The dynamics of Afro-Latinx subjectivity