RSVP | Prestige, Perpetuity, and Progress: Understanding the James Weldon Johnson Collection’s Early Gift Economy
In 1941, writer and arts patron Carl Van Vechten founded the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at Yale University, but this archive’s actual growth depended upon the generosity of many collectors, writers, and artists. In my talk, I use Carl Van Vechten’s and New York City schoolteacher Dorothy Peterson’s correspondence to explore items donated and values exchanged in what I am calling an early gift economy. I demonstrate how these webbed connections anticipated and informed the intellectual genealogies that would merge over the next two decades between historically Black and predominately White educational institutions.

When: March 14, 2024 @ 12:00-1:00PM
Where: Valentine House, Room 201 (920 W Franklin St, Richmond, VA 23284

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