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.