C-75. Developing and Interpreting African American Special Collections - Advance Reading List

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  • Required Reading

    African American Special Collections in the United States

    Porter, Dorothy P. “A Library on the Negro.” The Journal of Negro Education Vol. 10, No. 2 (Apr., 1941), pp. 264-266.

    Springarn, Arthur B. “Collecting a Library of Negro Literature.” The Journal of Negro Education Vol 7, No. 1 (Jan., 1938), pp. 12-18.

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Schomburg, Arturo Alfonso. “The Negro Digs Up His Past” in The New Negro. Ed. Alain Locke. New York : Albert and Charles Boni, 1925.

    Peet, Lisa. “Kevin Young: Director of NYPL’s Schomburg Center and New Yorker Poetry Editor.” Library Journal, March 22, 2017.

    Developing African American Collections

    Donadio, Rachel. “The Papers ChaseNew York Times, March 25, 2007.

    Jules, Bergis. Ed Summers, Vernon Mitchell, Jr. “Documenting the Now White Paper: Ethical Considerations for Archiving Social Media Content Generated by Contemporary Social Movements: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations,” 2018.

    Interpreting African American Collections

    Goldsby, Jacqueline and Meredith McGill. “The Black Bibliography Project.” CLIR Issues 124 (July/August 2018).

  • Recommended Reading

    African American Special Collections in the United States

    Sinnette, Elinor Des Verny, W. Paul Coates, and Thomas C. Battle, eds. Black Bibliographies and Collectors: Preservers of Black History. (Washington, DC): Howard University Press, 1990.

    Blockson, Charles L. “Preface.” In A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Influential Books by and about People of African Descent (1556-1982): A Collector’s Choice. Amsterdam: A. Gerit and Sons, 1989.

    Davis, Laurel, and Mary Sarah Bilder. “The Library of Robert Morris, Antebellum Civil Rights Lawyer and Activist.” Law Library Journal 111, no. 4 (2019).

    Welburn, William C., “To ‘Keep the Past in Lively Memory’: William Carl Bolivar’s Efforts to Preserve African American Cultural Heritage.” Libraries & the Cultural Record 42, no. 2 (2007): 165–179.

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa. Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2011.

    Valdes, Vanessa. Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. New York: SUNY Press, 2017.

    Sinette, Elinor Des Verney. Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989.

    Ellison, Ralph. “Harlem is Nowhere.” Reprinted in Harper’s, August 2014.

    Thurman, Wallace, ed. Fire!! New York, 1926.

    Developing African American Collections

    Lapidus, Sidney. “Foreword: Reflections Upon Fifty Years or Book Collecting.” In Liberty and the American Revolution: Selections from the Collection of Sid Lapidus, Class of 1959. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 2009.

    Gubert, Betty Kaplan, compiler. Early Black Bibliographies, 1863-1918. New York: Garland Press, 1982.

    Joyce, Donald. Gatekeepers of Black Culture: Black-owned Book Publishing in the United States, 1817-1981. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983.

    Newman, Richard, compiler. Black Access: A Bibliography of Afro-American Bibliographies. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984.

    Swann Galleries Printed & Manuscript African Americana Catalogs. Peruse the various catalogs.

    Interpreting African American Collections

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The State of Black Research Collections: Collaborating to Shape the Future of Collecting the Past. Schomburg Center, 2014. This reading will be provided to admitted students as a PDF.

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. “We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause” Black-owned Book Publishing in the United States, 1817-1987. New York: Schomburg Center, 1988. This reading will be provided to admitted students as a PDF.

    The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. Oxford University Press or Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Peruse the titles in the library, and read the “Foreword: In Her Own Write” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and “A Note from the Schomburg Center” by Howard Dodson. Both are the same in all of the titles.