3 10 27 https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/500061e89e7de65f7d8af9a083fa2a1c.jpg 977f0a5d101a207801fc21e1a19c60f5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Color Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Countee Cullen Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1925. Description An account of the resource No discussion of the Harlem Renaissance is complete without poet Countee Cullen. Writing and publishing at the height of the renaissance, Cullen was a key figure in this literary movement. At the age of twenty-two, Cullen published Color, his very first collection of poetry. Within the context of the 1920s, Cullen’s choice to publish Color through the mainstream publisher Harper & Brothers underscores Cullen’s desire to gain recognition as simply a poet and not with the caveat of being a black poet. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/8abf1e1810c7e73bdef88bb81d78913f.jpg 79742181351ed6f6ee6a03354058046e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Blues Dancing Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Diane McKinney-Whetstone Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: William Morrow and Company, 1999. Description An account of the resource A modern blues novel, Blues Dancing captures the emotional aesthetic of the blues. Diane McKinney-Whetstone captures the emotional toll of love and relationships through the life of Verdi Mae. In a narrative that jumps between the 1970s and the 1990s, Verdi Mae is entangled in love, drugs, and the lives of two different men. Reverberating with the lyrical blues themes of desire and dependency, McKinney-Whetstone’s novel shifts the narrative from a traditional working class blues to that of a black middle class blues that Verdi Mae finds herself trapped within. Blues Dancing emphasizes that jazz aesthetics are not simply historical aspects of African American literature, but rather a continuing prose tradition. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/ad15143f4f974546b693dc7d0b8bcbd5.jpg a88543472afc8c2182181e4dfa70048c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Black Misery Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Langston Hughes Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Paul S. Erickson Inc., 1969. Description An account of the resource Published posthumously, Langston Hughes’s final book of poems Black Misery is categorized as children’s literature. Hughes was approached by publisher Paul Eriksson in 1967 to write Black Misery, a literal blackening of children’s author Suzanne Heller’s Misery trilogy of short poems that humorously addressed the perceived miseries of white middle-class childhood. Eriksson believed that Hughes could create a successful satirical counterpart to Heller’s work, focusing on the miseries of black childhood. Hughes’s poetry exposes the effects of racism on black life and black childhood experiences in particular. Originally slotted for 45 captions, Hughes passed away with only 27 written, resulting in this short, but poignant collection. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/8e00879c99b3161daad8c5ec53c53bf3.jpg bd482d94aca2ac0e355b2110011bda95 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beloved Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Toni Morrison Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1987. Description An account of the resource The pages of Beloved are haunted. Operating through “rememory,” an erasure of linear time, and the ghost of protagonist Sethe’s daughter, slavery is ever-present, a specter in the pages. Recent scholarship has recognized the glimpses of science fiction in Beloved as a rare use of Afrofutursistic themes in Toni Morrison’s work. Morrison’s combination of U.S. history and the speculative creates a neo-slave narrative that blurs the lines of reality. This rare galley proof (or draft copy) of Beloved was the final opportunity for Morrison and her editors to alter the text prior to publication. By donating this innately ephemeral edition to DePaul, Arnold and Jane Grisham have insured that textual critics, scholars, and students will have access to this vital stage in the creation of Morrison’s landmark novel. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/ce18db7bf0dd2761073cc599657d687d.jpg 844af68d9d78657d252f7149cc7fe8a4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource American Daughter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Era Bell Thompson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. Description An account of the resource Journalist Era Bell Thompson, a lasting influence on the Chicago Renaissance, has not been widely recognized for her autobiographical work. In 1947 Thompson was one of the first editors of Ebony magazine, working for the publication until her death in 1986. American Daughter, Thompson’s autobiography written in Chicago, is a meditation on being a black woman in both black urban spaces and the white rural spaces of her childhood in North Dakota. Thompson utilizes the landscape and geography as metaphor for a form of double-consciousness between urban center and the white western frontier of North Dakota. As literary scholar Dr. Joanne M. Braxton writes, Thompson’s autobiography reveals “a growing sense of displacement that is geographic, cultural, and social.” https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/032b52c38077e497249aaf7605e2410e.jpg 3581df525b928ae046f19aed13421f4b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Long Walk to Freedom Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nelson Mandela Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. Description An account of the resource Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, recounts his life as a young political activist, prisoner, and central figure in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. In his autobiography, Mandela details his twenty-seven year imprisonment and fight against apartheid, while presenting a deeply personal narrative that echoes the larger anti-colonial struggle in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom is Mandela’s personal history, but it is also the story of a nation’s fighting racism and colonialism. Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 foreshadowed the end of apartheid in 1991. Long Walk to Freedom was published only months before Mandela became South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/9c50539b85b2f15bb731e42acd009324.jpg e1aebed734ffe76f5025a7bbe876bea1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 47 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walter Mosley Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Description An account of the resource Set on a Georgia plantation in 1832 and narrated by protagonist 47, a child born into slavery, we follow 47 as he meets a runaway slave from a nearby plantation, Tall John. Alluding to folklore, Tall John mirrors the legend of High John the Conqueror, a tale of an African spirit who frees African American slaves. Mystery writer Walter Mosley’s first and only work of young adult fiction is a synthesis of African American folklore and science fiction. Throughout the narrative, 47 comes to realize that Tall John does not hail from Africa, but from a distant planet, painting slavery as a universal injustice.