Barrye Brown is curator of the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Laura E. Helton is author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History. Vanessa K. Valdés is the author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

“Finally! This is the comprehensive study of the origins and impact of Arturo Schomburg’s singular work and vision we have been waiting for. In a moment where libraries and books by and about Black people are being targeted, this exhaustive look at Schomburg’s quest to center Black scholarship is both necessary and timely.”—Tracie D. Hall, University of Washington Information School, and founder, Black Information Futures Initiative“Black Studies on 135th Street is a thrilling accomplishment; literary archeology at its best. And a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Black Studies, book collecting, and librarianship.”—Jacqueline Goldsby, Yale University

Barrye Brown is curator of the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Laura E. Helton is author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History. Vanessa K. Valdés is the author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

“Finally! This is the comprehensive study of the origins and impact of Arturo Schomburg’s singular work and vision we have been waiting for. In a moment where libraries and books by and about Black people are being targeted, this exhaustive look at Schomburg’s quest to center Black scholarship is both necessary and timely.”—Tracie D. Hall, University of Washington Information School, and founder, Black Information Futures Initiative“Black Studies on 135th Street is a thrilling accomplishment; literary archeology at its best. And a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Black Studies, book collecting, and librarianship.”—Jacqueline Goldsby, Yale University

Barrye Brown is curator of the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Laura E. Helton is author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History. Vanessa K. Valdés is the author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

“Finally! This is the comprehensive study of the origins and impact of Arturo Schomburg’s singular work and vision we have been waiting for. In a moment where libraries and books by and about Black people are being targeted, this exhaustive look at Schomburg’s quest to center Black scholarship is both necessary and timely.”—Tracie D. Hall, University of Washington Information School, and founder, Black Information Futures Initiative“Black Studies on 135th Street is a thrilling accomplishment; literary archeology at its best. And a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Black Studies, book collecting, and librarianship.”—Jacqueline Goldsby, Yale University