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05067aam a2200613 i 4500 001 A1951A0AFC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240417010124 008 230927s2024 nyua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2023038828 020 $a 0231212755 020 $a 9780231212755 020 $a 0231212747 020 $a 9780231212748 035 $a (OCoLC)1402763600 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d Z45 $d OCLCO $d YDX $d CMA $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E184.6 $b .H45 2024 082 00 $a 026/.3231196073 $2 23/eng/20231012 100 1 $a Helton, Laura E., $e author. 245 10 $a Scattered and fugitive things : $b how Black collectors created archives and remade history / $c Laura E. Helton. 246 30 $a How Black collectors created archives and remade history 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2024] 300 $a xx, 305 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Black lives in the diaspora : past / present / future 520 $a "During the first half of the twentieth century, the efforts of archivists like Arturo Schomburg or Howard University librarian Dorothy Porter shaped the Black imagination and the direction of social and political movements. Every act of acquisition was an argument about the nature of the meaning of Black history. These decisions determined which stories would persist or disappear in the archival spaces of Black memory. In Scattered and Fugitive Things, Laura E. Helton follows these archival efforts across the storylines of six collectors. Their biographies reflect the diverse trajectories of diasporic thinkers in the United States. The self-taught Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Schomburg. Virginia-born Alexander Gumby was a working-class denizen of Harlem's gay underground and a prolific scrapbook maker. Vivian Harsh, the daughter of formerly enslaved parents, organized a collection on Chicago's South Side. Librarian Dorothy Porter became a central character in the Howard University intellectual scene and served briefly at the National Library of Nigeria. Virginia Lee stayed in the South, working within (and sometimes secretly against) the limits of Jim Crow restrictions on Black reading spaces. Historian L. D. Reddick served as curator of Schomburg's collection in the 1940s before joining the southern civil rights movement as its participant-chronicler. In a racially segregated information landscape, these archivists, as well as other Black thinkers, necessarily made their arguments through files and filing systems as well as through poetry and prose. The making of information systems is deeply entwined with Black intellectual history, and this book recovers that strain of practical criticism"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Mobilizing Manuscripts : L. D. Reddick and Black Archival Politics. $t Thinking Black, Collecting Black : Schomburg's Desiderata and the Radical World of Black Bibliophiles -- $t A "History of the Negro in Scrapbooks" : The Gumby Book Studio's Ephemeral Assemblies -- $t Defiant Libraries : Virginia Lee and the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies -- $t Unauthorized Inquiries : Dorothy Porter's Wayward Catalog -- $t A Space for Black Study : The Hall Branch Library and the Historians Who Never Wrote -- $t Mobilizing Manuscripts : L. D. Reddick and Black Archival Politics. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a African Americans $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Archives $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Archivists $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African American intellectuals $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African American book collectors $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African American librarians $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African American historians $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Libraries $x African Americans. $x African Americans. 650 7 $a African American book collectors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799052 650 7 $a African American historians $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799195 650 7 $a African American intellectuals $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799204 650 7 $a African American librarians $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799223 650 7 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799627 650 7 $a Archives $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00814030 650 7 $a Archivists $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00814105 650 7 $a Libraries $x African Americans $x African Americans $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997452 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Helton, Laura E. $t Scattered and fugitive things $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] $z 9780231559546 $w (DLC) 2023038829 830 0 $a Black lives in the diaspora 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240417024817.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A1951A0AFC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search