Scope and arrangement
The collection consists of one audio recording and two videos relating to the activities of Other Countries, Inc., dating from 1986 to 1997. They are organized chronologically. Recordings are video unless indicated otherwise.
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- Creator
- Other Countries, Inc
- Call number
- Sc MIRS Other 1997-53
- Physical description
- 1 audio_recording. 2 video_recordings
- Language
- English; Haitian Creole
- Preferred Citation
- Other Countries audio and moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library
- Sponsor
- An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project.
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
- Access to materials
- Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.
Other Countries, Inc. is a writing collective established in New York City in 1986 to foster the creative expression of Black gay men, and to provide peer support in the face of HIV/AIDS and literary underrepresentation. The collection consists of one audio recording and two videos relating to the activities of Other Countries dating from 1986 to 1997.
Biographical/historical information
Other Countries, Inc. is a writing collective that began as a weekly writing workshop established by the poet Daniel Garrett in New York City in 1986 to foster the creative expression of Black gay men, and to provide peer support in the face of HIV/AIDS and literary underrepresentation. The collective hosts public readings and publishes anthologies of writing by Black queer male writers such as They Are Other Countries: Black Gay Voices, a First Volume (1988), Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (1993), and Voices Rising: Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing (2007). Notable members of the collective include the collection's donor, B. Michael Hunter, as well as Colin Robinson, Assotto Saint, and Donald Woods. The name of the group was inspired by the works of James Baldwin.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Bert Michael Hunter, 1997; John Manzon-Santos, 2001.
Processing information
Collection inventoried by Amelia Carlin. Collection processed and described by Lyric Evans-Hunter, archivist. Finding aid published in 2025.
Separated material
See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Other Countries records, Sc MG 627.
See the Photographs and Prints Division for the photographs.
Related Material
See the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division for anthologies by Other Countries.
See the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division for the Assotto Saint audio and moving image collection, Sc MIRS Saint 1994-30.
See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Colin Robinson Papers, Sc MG 853.
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Third Floor