Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2024
Contributors	Author: Laura E. Helton
Series Title	Black lives in the diaspora : past / present / future
Language	English
Number of Pages	305
Publisher	Columbia University Press
City	New York, NY
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Region	United States
Library Type	Academic Libraries Archives and Special Collections Public Libraries
Demographics	Women African-Americans
Chronological Period	1900-1949 1950-1999
ISBN	9780231212748
Annotation	Contents: Value, Order, Risk: Experiments in Black Archiving Thinking Black, Collecting Black: Schomburg's Desiderata and the Radical World of Black Bibliophiles A "History of the Negro in Scrapbooks": The Gumby Book Studio's Ephemeral Assemblies Defiant Libraries: Virginia Lee and the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies Unauthorized Inquiries: Dorothy Porter's Wayward Catalog A Space for Black Study: The Hall Branch Library and the Historians Who Never Wrote Mobilizing Manuscripts: L. D. Reddick and Black Archival Politics