Free Download Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future) by Laura Helton
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: 0231212747, 0231212755 | True EPUB | 328 pages | 11.97 MB
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.