Writings on Arturo Schomburg

Books

Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. SUNY Press, 2017 cloth, 2018 paperback. 202 pages.

“Arturo Schomburg, Juan de Pareja, and Afro-Hispanic Studies,” Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2023. (book chapter)

“Una mirada desde la diáspora: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938),” Puerto Rico Negrx, edited by María Elena Ortiz and Marina Reyes Franco. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, 2024. (book chapter)

Curriculum

Arturo A. Schomburg’s Life and Legacy (click to download) 2025.

Articles and Blog Posts

“Stepping into the Public Sphere: Arturo Schomburg’s Letters to the New York Times.” Legacies of San Juan Hill at Lincoln Center (August 29, 2024)

“Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.“ Long Overdue series, Perspectives on History blog of the American Historical Association (March 2024)

“How Arturo Schomburg’s Search for Juan de Pareja Led to The Met,” SUNY Press Blog (June 16, 2023)

“Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: Archivist, Institution Builder, and Advocate of Global Black History,” Hispanic Heroes in American History, special issue of History Now: The Journal (Spring 2023)

“‘The Love of Race’: The Visual Imagery of Arturo Schomburg,” invited essay for Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in the Twenty-First Century, special issue of African American Review 54:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2021) 143-157.

“The Afterlives of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg,” Small Axe 24:1 (March 2020): 142-151.