2010.54.5984

• african american
• ethnicity and race

Main image is a black and white photograph of an African American child wearing corduroy pants and a knit sweater. The child is standing in a corner with his/her hand next to his/her cheek. Next to the child is a poem by Langston Hughes that reads, "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?/ Or fester like a sore/ And then run?/ Does it stink like rotten meat?/ Or crust and sugar over--/ like a syrupy sweet?/ Maybe it just sags/ like a heavy load,/ Or does it explode?"