African American Studies at Beinecke Library

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

Beinecke Top Tens: Paul Robeson
March 5, 2013

Beinecke Top Tens: Paul Robeson Lobby cards for 1933 motion picture “Emperor Jones” starring Paul Robeson and directed by Dudley Murphy, from the stage play by...
New Acquisition: Ericka Huggins Papers
March 4, 2013
The Catherine Roraback Collection of Ericka Huggins Papers is now available for research.
James Weldon Johnson Collection: From the Yale Library Gazette Archive
February 19, 2013
THE JAMES WELDON JOHNSON MEMORIAL COLLECTION OF NEGRO ARTS AND LETTERS by Arna Bontemps
Natasha Trethewey Reading at Beinecke
January 31, 2013
Natasha Trethewey is the 19th United States Poet Laureate (2012-2013). I
Welcome Visiting Research Fellow Jean Pfaelzer
January 31, 2013
Jean Pfaelzer is Professor of American Studies, Asian Studies, English and Women’s Studies at the University of Delaware.
Theorizing Racial Formations
January 1, 2013
Resources for Professor Elizabeth Alexander’s Theorizing Racial Formations course (AFAM 505a, AMST 643a), Fall 2012
Celebrating 2012
December 24, 2012
Congratulations to the many scholars conducting new research in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters and the Yale Collection of American Literature in 2012.
New Research from Beinecke Collections
November 18, 2012
Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) was an art critic and patron, a novelist, and a photographer from the early- to mid-twentieth century.
The English Army's Only Black Regiment
October 31, 2012
The Beinecke Library has acquired the William Walker Whitehall Johnston Photograph Album of Wales, the West Indies, and the 1st West India Regiment (GEN MSS 887).
Poetry Reading: C. S. Giscombe
October 12, 2012
C.S. Giscombe is the author of books including Prairie Style, Two Sections from Practical Geography, Giscome Road, Here, At Large, Postcards, and Into and Out of Dislocation.