{"id":63265,"date":"2022-02-25T17:32:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63265"},"modified":"2022-02-26T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T15:17:34","slug":"the-afro-latino-who-redefined-how-black-history-is-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63265","title":{"rendered":"The Afro Latino who redefined how Black history is remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Afro Latino who redefined how Black history is remembered<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NBC News<\/a>
\n2022-02-24<\/p>\n

Nicole Acevedo<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter<\/p>\n

<\/a>
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg<\/a>
\nSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture \/ NYPL<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arturo Schomburg’s<\/a> experiences as an Afro Puerto Rican at the turn of the century influenced his approach to rescuing and preserving Black history.<\/em><\/p>\n

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg is regarded as one of the foundational figures of Black history in the United States<\/a>, with one of the nation’s most important research and cultural institutions<\/a> named after him.<\/p>\n

Yet his legacy goes beyond the work he did as a historian, writer and collector of global Black art and historical materials.<\/p>\n

By identifying as a Black and Puerto Rican<\/a>, Schomburg’s acknowledgment of his diverse heritage helped him earn a global understanding of Black identity \u2014 a view he implemented in his approach to rescuing and preserving Black history \u2014 while he recognized the way Blackness had been erased, including in the Caribbean<\/a> and Latin America<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arturo Schomburg’s experiences as an Afro Puerto Rican at the turn of the century influenced his approach to rescuing and preserving Black history.<\/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":[26967,8202,15127,33160,27088,27089],"class_list":["post-63265","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-nbc-news","tag-nicole-acevedo","tag-vanessa-k-valdes","tag-vanessa-valdes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63265","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=63265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63275,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63265\/revisions\/63275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}