Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

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Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.

A Black Puerto Rican–born scholar, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938) used to be a well-known collector and archivist whose personal library used to be the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He used to be an autodidact who matched wits with university-educated women and men, in addition to a prominent Freemason, a creator, and an institution-builder.

Whilst he spent much of his life in New York City, Schomburg used to be intimately involved in the reason for Cuban and Puerto Rican independence. In the aftermath of the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898, he would go on to cofound the Negro Society for Historical Research and lead the American Negro Academy, all of the Whilst collecting and assembling books, prints, pamphlets, articles, and other ephemera produced by Black women and men from across the Americas and Europe. His curated library collection at the New York Public Library emphasized the presence of African peoples and their descendants all the way through the Americas and would serve as an indispensable resource for the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. By offering a sustained have a look at the life of one of the crucial important figures of early twentieth-century New York City, this first book-length examination of Schomburg’s life as an Afro-Latino suggests new ways of understanding the intersections of both Blackness and latinidad.

“Essential.” — CHOICE

“…Valdés’s book represents a valuable contribution to the study of the life and work of Schomburg and the history of Puerto Ricans and African-Americans of his moment.” — Centro Voices

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