African American Studies at Beinecke Library

Collections, events, and news from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters.

Student Research in Beinecke Collections
May 12, 2010
Taja Cheek’s essay on Jean Toomer’s Cane (written for Professor Jessica Pressman’s Spring 2010 English 127 class) focuses on the tension between black southern dialect and scholarly English in the third section of the novel.
In Memoriam
May 10, 2010
Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, September 15, 1941.
Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal
May 9, 2010

Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Instructional Technology Group , have launched a web...
Fellow's Lecture: Sounds in the Silences
May 6, 2010
Sounds in the Silences: Jamaican Popular Music as a Response to the “Silence” of History
New Scholarship from the Library Collections
March 1, 2010
Winner of the 2009 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research, sponsored by the Yale College Dean’s Office.
Orpheus M. and Mattie Allen McAdoo Papers
February 9, 2010
The Orpheus M. McAdoo and Mattie Allen McAdoo Papers (JWJ MSS 60 ) are now available for research.
Elements of Style
January 30, 2010
New Exhibition: Elements of Style: Fashion and Form at the Beinecke on view January 19 through March 27, 2010.
New Scholarship from the JWJ Memorial Collection
January 13, 2010
Boy of the Border: An unpublished children’s book by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps
Facebook
December 9, 2009
The Beinecke Library is now on Facebook and Twitter.
James Weldon and Grace Nail Johnson Papers
November 19, 2009
The James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers, recently reprocessed, are now available for research.