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Holton, Adalaine. "Decolonizing History: Schomburg's Afrodiasporic Archive" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York USA, <Not Available>. 2012-06-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p35402_index.html>

Holton, A. "Decolonizing History: Schomburg's Afrodiasporic Archive" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York USA <Not Available>. 2012-06-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p35402_index.html

Publication Type: Individual Paper Abstract: Arthur Schomburg is widely recognized as a bibliophile whose personal collection formed the core of what is now the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. His life work has often been studied within the context of bibliophilia, a view that obscures that fact that he built the first substantial archive of Afrodiasporic culture and enacted a transformative historiographic project with tremendous public impact. By recovering, archiving, and popularizing a dynamic history of the African diaspora, Schomburg hoped to give people of African descent a sense of themselves as a cohesive people, a 'nation-in-theory,' with a long-standing, proud, and diverse history. His efforts to compile a transnational and multilinguistic archive of black history were especially devoted to recovering the much-neglected history of black Latinos in Spain, the Caribbean, and Latin America. This paper argues that Schomburg’s historical project can be most accurately understood as an 'oppositional archive' because it was constructed in order to support a libratory stance in relation to white supremacy—to undermine the tenets of white supremacy, establish and redefine international black history, and reconfigure master narratives of Western history. I also address the ways that Schomburg’s archive constitutes an imaginary space of diasporic connection and a real location where cultural items collected from the African diaspora mingle with one another. Reflecting his belief that black history is an irreducible web of intersecting experiences, languages, and cultural practices, Schomburg’s collection allows for the comparison of Afrodiasporic communities across difference without discounting those differences.

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