https://poets.org/poems/sterling-brown

Sterling A. Brown is one of the most powerful American poets nearly nobody has heard of.  Read this trio of his poems, paying particular attention to the Slim Greer poem.  It is part of a larger cycle of Slim poems similar to what we see with Langston Hughes and his comic Jesse B. Semple character.

Are the characters being satirized as they satirize white culture?  How so?

Sterling [A.] Brown, Oct. 7 #119 : [cellulose acetate photonegative and contact print, 1944]. Creator: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) (photographers). Title: Sterling [A.] Brown, Oct. 7 #119 : [cellulose acetate photonegative and contact print, 1944]. Contained in: Black-and-white film negatives (Series 4), Scurlock Studio Records, 1905-1994. Phy. Description: 2 items. Medium : Negative: Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet, 7 x 5″. Contact print : Silver gelatin on paper. Digital Reference: Summary: Near-profile view of subject smoking a pipe. Ink on negative: “Mr. Sterling Brown 3-5×7 – 3-8×10 – 1-11×14”. Tape on negative: “2-11×14”. Sterling [A.] Brown, Oct. 7 #119 . No edge imprint. Condition: Good condition. Restrictions: Fees for commercial use. Smithsonian Institution owns rights