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Black History & Culture

African American folk arts, the source of inspiration for much contemporary music, dance, literature, and visual art, are examined with a view toward preserving, identifying, documenting, and presenting them.

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96 pages. Published by NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1991.

Black Bibliophile & Collector Image

Elinor DesVerney Sinnette

The first full biography of the pioneering black collector whose search for the hidden records of the black experience led to the development of a research collection which laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture.

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262 pages, b/w illustrations. Published by Wayne State University Press, 1989.

Richard Newman

A survey of rare and manuscript material by and about blacks, literary and historical, in the Library's special collection of English and American literature.

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42 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. Published by NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1989.

Glenderlyn Johnson

This exhibition catalogue features photographs of selected works by 42 artists who resided in or maintained studios in Harlem at the time of the exhibition.

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56 pages. Published by The New York Public Library, 1988.

Paperback. $35.00.
limited edition of 100 autographed catalogues.

This commemorative catalogue for the Schomburg Center's 60th anniversary exhibition celebrating Arthur Schomburg's legacy offers a biographical essay in English and Spanish along with a bibliography of works by Arthur Schomburg.

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140 pages, b/w illustrations throughout. Published by NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.

Compiled by Betty Kaplan Gubert and Richard Newman

A bibliography of the writings of the staff of the Schomburg Center covering the period 1892 to 1983.

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83 pages. Published by NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.

This 60th anniversary tribute book offers a historical overview of the evolution of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture through photographs and text.

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48 pages, b/w illustrations throughout. Published by NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.

Edited by Henry Louis Gates, General Editor

These remarkable volumes bring to light the voices of an important segment of the African American literary tradition with their offerings of rare works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, essays, and journalism.

Selected titles available; paperback only. For information on specific titles and prices, call or write the Schomburg Center.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY 10037-1801
(212) 491-2200

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Published by Oxford University Press in collaboration with the Schomburg Center.

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