https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/74dd2a2565d77d1cd9199ac8dbb9b248.jpg 497c7074e10f29960e559a911e5f6d1f 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 The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Weldon Johnson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1927. Description An account of the resource Originally published anonymously in 1912, this 1927 edition of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man was the first to credit James Weldon Johnson as the author. Written during the nascent period of the Harlem Renaissance, the fictional autobiography is narrated by the “Ex-Coloured Man.” Reflecting on a life between and within two racial identities, the narrator recounts his life as a black ragtime musician to his life spent passing as a white businessman. The narrator’s shift to a white identity was instigated by his witnessing of a violent lynching in the Reconstruction era South. Johnson’s detailed description of a lynching, although fictional, was one of the first novels to provide social commentary on systemic racism and mob law in the post-emancipation South. This is the first title that Arnold Grisham collected, sparking his interest in book collecting.