2 10 27 https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/a5600897302912d65eb08454352ee329.jpg 9094b3b4223ab92c3ce70892cdb83318 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 Going to Meet the Man Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Baldwin Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Dial Press, 1965. Description An account of the resource James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues” first appeared in 1957 in Partisan Review, a prominent literary magazine. “Sonny’s Blues” was reprinted in Going to Meet the Man among seven additional short stories by Baldwin. Utilizing a jazz motif, “Sonny’s Blues” is a glimpse into the way that the jazz can appear in literature through thematic representation of the blues. In this short story the themes of alienation and individualism sing the blues across the page. “Sonny’s Blues” also references the blues by naming musicians Charlie Parker and Louie Armstrong and also the 1924 jazz standard "Am I Blue?" 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. 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/d2919857338e03aeb602474340bca40f.jpg 66d39fa4a435f21b8d80aa7b514119f8 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 Simple Speaks His Mind Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Langston Hughes Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Simon and Schuster Inc., 1950. Description An account of the resource On February 13, 1943, the fictional character Jesse B. Semple debuted as the protagonist of a new weekly column written by Langston Hughes. Known as Simple, Hughes crafted him to be emblematic of working class African Americans in the mid-20th century. Set in Harlem and published within the pages of the Chicago Defender, Simple stories blended the literary worlds of the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances. Simple Speaks His Mind is the first collected volume of Simple stories, which launched Hughes into literary prominence. Hughes employed the character of Simple to vocalize the everyday experiences of encountering racism in the U.S. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/bbdc47068c212b33dbbd5a3aa9aa769f.jpg 7cd7b126aa6c8fa7059b347b724244b3 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 Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit me Well Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Maya Angelou Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Ney York: Random House, 1975. Description An account of the resource Maya Angelou, a famed author, playwright, activist, and poet is best known for her seven autobiographies. Scholars and critics have favored the autobiographies leaving her poetry largely unexamined. Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well was the second volume of poetry Angelou published. The very few pieces of criticism that address this work accuse the poems of being superficial and simple addressing only love and loss. The criticism of Angelou’s poetry is common because her poetry must stand against the celebrated prose of her autobiographies. Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well is a testament to Angelou’s ability to write across stylistic genres. 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/f359e501640a65090d7aeddecbb56ac9.jpg 9aa3e8906db08c7c06695bcbf92a0dd1 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 Kindred Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Octavia Butler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Description An account of the resource Recognized as the first black woman to break into the genre, Octavia Butler forever altered the white, male-centric world of science fiction. Kindred follows Dana Franklin as she is thrown back and forth between 1976 and the nineteenth century amongst her ancestors. Snatched by time, Dana’s journey echoes the experiences of kidnapping during the slave trade. Time travel, a standard convention of the science fiction genre, is redefined by Butler as she weaves a narrative that is neither nostalgic nor scientific, but a painful exploration of this nation’s past. Reimagining science fiction with the inclusion of race and a postmodern slave narrative, Kindred is quintessentially Afrofuturistic. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/6f158c5d12979c4406b3c843ed23ddf5.jpg 023cc6c54e542d6c007035ea24fc8ae3 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 Poems of Cabin and Field Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Paul Laurence Dunbar Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899. Description An account of the resource Categorized as Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “dialect poems,” The Poems of Cabin and Field were written in an imagined black vernacular. Paired with staged photographs of plantation life, the poetry collection was one of the first publications to project a stylized image of black life at the turn of the 20th century. The photographs were taken by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, a group of amateur African American photographers from the small school in Hampton, Virginia. The Poems of Cabin and Field represents Dunbar’s earliest works that were all written in a fictionalized vernacular. Dunbar’s later poetry received critical acclaim after he discontinued his use of dialectic writing. https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/68c9a2e6bf675af7df12b3b2abef9839.jpg 0854a628a93db09705005650349f2e1b 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 Juneteenth Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ralph Ellison Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: Random House, 1999. Description An account of the resource Best known as the author of the 1952 American classic Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison didn’t see most of his work published during his lifetime. Juneteenth was published as his second novel, following his death in 1994. Originally spanning over 2,000 pages, Ellison’s literary executor John F. Callahan condensed Juneteenth to 368 pages for publication. Although heavily edited, the jazz impulses that appear in Juneteenth also take center stage in Invisible Man, signifying that it was Ellison and not Callahan who crafted a jazz novel. Both novels outline a search for identity that emulates the bebop improvisational soloist in search of individuality within a chorus of community and tradition. 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.