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"The Love of Race": The Visual Imagery of Arturo Schomburg
- African American Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 54, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2021
- pp. 143-157
- 10.1353/afa.2021.0008
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Abstract:
This essay highlights the networks in which Arturo Schomburg was an active member throughout his life by examining several group portraits in which he appears. In this way, it counters the perception of Schomburg as isolated in his pursuit to collect evidences of Black excellence, underscoring instead that he was emblematic of the Race Men of his era.