The joy of finding periodicals "Not in Danky"

Library Trends, Wntr, 2008 by Randall K. Burkett

* The Journal (Volume 1, Number 1, Winter-Spring 1984), by the Society for the Study of Black Philosophy in conjunction with the Minority Book Publisher's Institute, New York, Alfred E. Prettyman, Publisher. Lucius Outlaw and Cornel West both published articles in this issue, the only one apparently published, along with Richard Popkin, Wesley Brown, LaVerne Shelton, and others.

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The list of Emory's Not in Danky African American periodicals could be extended and it will be extended every year. This is not a criticism of the stunning accomplishment that is represented by the signal work, African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography. On the contrary, it is the highest compliment we can pay to a colleague who has labored hard in so many areas of American cultural studies to seek, find, identify, preserve, and make available to the scholarly and general public the obscure as well as the well known world of print culture. Jim once memorably described bibliography as "the humus on the forest floor." It is the fertile soil from which scholarship grows. Jim has made an enduring contribution enriching that soil by documenting the diversity and richness of the printed word in American society. For his vision, his perseverance, and his passion, we are in his debt.

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All of the illustrations are courtesy of the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

Randall K. Burkett is curator of African American collections in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Formerly associate director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, Burkett is the author of two books on Marcus Garvey: Garveyism as a Religious Movement and Black Redemption: Churchmen Speak for the Garvey Movement. He coedited Black Biography 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index (a four-volume index to biographical sketches and illustrations of 35,000 African Americans and now a Web-based research tool). He was associate editor of The Harvard Guide to African-American History. He recently co-authored with Pellom McDaniels and Tiffany Gleason The Mind of Carter G. Woodson as Reflected in the Books He Owned, Read & Published: A Catalog of the Library of Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Burkett is a member of The Grolier Club, the oldest society of bibliophiles in North America.