African American Studies at Beinecke Library

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

Playwright Leslie Lee
November 1, 2018
Playwright Leslie Lee in the Matthew Jennett Papers
New Acquisition: A Long Way from Home Archive
October 15, 2018
Beinecke Library has acquired the archive for the documentary A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation, written by Gaspar Gonzalez and Matthew Frye Jacobson and directed by Gaspar Gonzalez.
New Scholarship: Teanu Reid on Money, Slavery, Manumission in the Early Modern British Atlantic
September 17, 2018
Teanu Reid on Money, Slavery, Manumission in the Early Modern British Atlantic
Poetry Reading - Nicole Sealey, September 27 at Beinecke Library
September 10, 2018
Nicole Sealey, Poetry Reading -- Thursday, September 27, 4:00 PM,Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library 2018-2019 Research Fellows
August 28, 2018
Welcome 2018-2019 Research Fellows!
A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life (New York Times)
August 20, 2018
Identifying and Dismantling White Supremacy in Archives
August 2, 2018

Michelle Caswell, “Teaching to Dismantle White Supremacy in Archives,” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, Volume 87, Number 3, July 2017...
NEW SCHOLARSHIP: Amanda Mehsima Licato on Toomer and O'Keeffe
May 16, 2018
Amanda Mehsima Licato, “The Shared Journeys of Jean Toomer and Georgia O’Keeffe,” in The Census,Yale Program in the History of the Book
+ The Art of Collaboration
February 23, 2018
+ The Art of Collaboration explores the excitement and power of separate elements combining to make things that are new, beautiful, strange, and memorable.
The Art of Collaboration: Native Son on Stage and Screen
February 23, 2018
Richard Wright’s classic novel, a bestseller when it was published in 1940, explores the conditions of the life of Bigger Thomas, a poor, black 19-year-old, and the aftermath of Bigger’s accidental murder of Mary Dalton, a wealthy, white college student, culminating in Bigger’s trial, where he is defended by a communist lawyer.