Toni Morrison Collective

About The Toni Morrison Collective

By necessity, the Collective operates entirely through collaborations with formal units such as Cornell academic departments and programs, which contribute resources for our projects; community organizations and institutions, which donate resources or collaborate with us on publicly funded grants; and broader associations with other academic or arts-and-humanities-focused entities. The benefits are two-fold: our collaborators relish the opportunity to engage with Toni Morrison within their particular spheres of interest, and the Collective reaches broad constituencies through the diversity of the collaborative projects. With past undertakings that include a 50th-anniversary marathon reading of The Bluest Eye, the placement of a historical marker at Morrison’s off-campus Ithaca residence, a high-school-student tableau project based on Recitatif in the Cornell residence Hall that bears her name, and a performance of her dramatic work Desdemona, among others–the Collective’s programs are continuously burnishing Toni Morrison’s legacy at her alma mater and in its community.

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Cornell University Sponsor: Elaine Westbrooks, University Librarian