Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future)
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future)

by Laura Helton

History African American Studies archival studies
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Laura Helton examines how Black collectors created archives from scattered and fugitive materials, offering a study of collecting, historical memory, and the remaking of history within the Black diaspora. Part of the Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future series.

ISBN-13 9780231212755 ASIN 0231212755 Views 74 Publisher Columbia University Press Year 2024 Format Paperback Product Group Book Pages 328 Created April 20, 2026 Updated October 30, 2026
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Scattered and Fugitive Things examines the relationship between Black collecting, archival creation, and historical memory.

Laura Helton focuses on how Black collectors created archives from materials described as scattered and fugitive.

Part of the Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future series, the book considers how these collections remade history.

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