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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
2017·48 pages
A poetic tribute to Arturo Schomburg, an Afro-Puerto Rican who built a vital library of African diaspora history.
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A poetic tribute to Arturo Schomburg, an Afro-Puerto Rican who built a vital library of African diaspora history.
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In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history. Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of...
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Moderate focus on racial justice and historical correction of African diaspora narratives.
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Brief references to historical oppression and systemic suffering of African descendants.
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