2. A “History of the Negro in Scrapbooks”: The Gumby Book Studio’s Ephemeral Assemblies

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: Value, Order, Risk—Experiments in Black Archiving 1
6. 1. Thinking Black, Collecting Black: Schomburg’s Desiderata and the Radical World of Black Bibliophiles 30
7. 2. A “History of the Negro in Scrapbooks”: The Gumby Book Studio’s Ephemeral Assemblies 56
8. 3. Defiant Libraries: Virginia Lee and the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies 81
9. 4. Unauthorized Inquiries: Dorothy Porter’s Wayward Catalog 106
10. 5. A Space for Black Study: The Hall Branch Library and the Historians Who Never Wrote 129
11. 6. Mobilizing Manuscripts: L. D. Reddick and Black Archival Politics 152
12. Epilogue 175
13. List of Abbreviations 185
14. Notes 187
15. Bibliography 263
16. Index 291