https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/a86043b07383071d4d166c7f79a59fd9.jpg f20a7b86232179e59914c51de61d0c17 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 Native Son Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Richard Wright Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Harper & Brothers Publishing, 1940 Description An account of the resource Set on the south side of Chicago in the 1930s and written from post-renaissance Harlem, Richard Wright’s Native Son presents the reality of racism in the U.S. during the Jim Crow era. Following protagonist Bigger Thomas through an impoverished life in Chicago, Native Son wrestles with both the systematic and psychological effects of racism on African Americans in urban spaces. The raw and graphic narrative Wright unfolds expresses the reality of American racism. Native Son was one of the first literary texts to fully display black rage and a detailed experience of black life in an urban center.