{"id":53860,"date":"2017-05-11T01:47:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T01:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53860"},"modified":"2017-05-11T01:47:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T01:47:13","slug":"profiles-in-the-diaspora-re-thinking-arturo-alfonso-schomburg-the-afro-puerto-rican-father-of-the-global-african-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53860","title":{"rendered":"Profiles in the Diaspora: Re-thinking Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the Afro-Puerto Rican Father of the Global African Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okayafrica.com\/culture-2\/profiles-diaspora-re-thinking-arturo-alfonso-schomburg-afro-puerto-rican-father-global-african-diaspora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Profiles in the Diaspora: Re-thinking Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the Afro-Puerto Rican Father of the Global African Diaspora<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okayafrica.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Okay Africa: International Edition<\/a><br \/>\n2017-05-06<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Pastor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okayafrica.com\/culture-2\/profiles-diaspora-re-thinking-arturo-alfonso-schomburg-afro-puerto-rican-father-global-african-diaspora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okayafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Arturo-Alfonso-Schomburg-2.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arturo_Alfonso_Schomburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><small>Arturo Alfonso Schomburg<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: In the inaugural edition of our Weekend Reading series, journalist David Pastor reviews new work on the legendary black scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arturo_Alfonso_Schomburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arturo Alfonso Schomburg<\/a> that helps reinstate his Puerto Rican identity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NEW YORK CITY<\/a>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arturo_Alfonso_Schomburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arturo Schomburg<\/a>, namesake of the renowned <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schomburg_Center_for_Research_in_Black_Culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black History<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harlem<\/a>, is said to have identified as an afro-borinque\u00f1o, a Puerto Rican of African descent. Yet there has been a delay in acknowledging this ethnic component of his racial identity\u2014his legacy so closely tied to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harlem Renaissance<\/a>, black history and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Even during his lifetime, there were misconceptions concerning Arturo Schomburg and his intersectional background, including assertions that he had forgotten his native tongue; lost his culture, his interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Puerto Rico<\/a>, etc. Later, conflicting, often simplified views on Schomburg emerged and characterized him almost exclusively as a black scholar whose Puerto Rican identity had seemingly diminished upon his integration into the African-American community&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okayafrica.com\/culture-2\/profiles-diaspora-re-thinking-arturo-alfonso-schomburg-afro-puerto-rican-father-global-african-diaspora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: In the inaugural edition of our Weekend Reading series, journalist David Pastor reviews new work on the legendary black scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg that helps reinstate his Puerto Rican identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,14646,8,20],"tags":[26967,8202,26969,26968,2654],"class_list":["post-53860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-arturo-alfonso-schomburg","tag-arturo-schomburg","tag-david-pastor","tag-okay-africa","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53861,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53860\/revisions\/53861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}