AFROAM 118. Survey of Afro-American Literature II

4 credits (AL,DU)

Professor Smethurst

Lecture: MW 11:15-12:05 p.m.

Discussion Sections: F 11:15 a.m. or F 12:20 p.m.

Introductory level survey of Afro-American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present, including Du Bois, Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Walker, Morrison, Baraka and Lorde.

Spring 2023 Course Guide
Undergraduate Spring 2023 Course Guide
AFROAM 101. Introduction to Black Studies
AFROAM 118. Survey of Afro-American Literature II
AFROAM 133. African-American History: Civil War-1954
AFROAM 151. Literature & Culture
AFROAM 156. Revolutionary Concepts in Afro-American Music II
AFROAM 170. The Grassroots Experience in American Life and Culture I
AFROAM 197B. Taste of Honey: Black Film in the 1950s
AFROAM 234. Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
AFROAM 236. History of the Civil Rights Movement
AFROAM 238. Arts and Cultural Identity
AFROAM 265. The Blues Came Down Like Dark Night Showers of Rain
AFROAM 293C. Race, Sexuality, and the Law in Early America
AFROAM 293G. From Environmental Racism to Climate Justice
AFROAM 293J. Black Women, Representation, and Power in Africa and the African Diaspora
AFROAM 297A. Black Springfield: Revisited
AFROAM 297D. African American Film
AFROAM 326. Black Women in U.S. History
AFROAM 331. Life of W.E.B. Du Bois
AFROAM 345. Southern Literature
Spring 2023 Graduate Course Guide
AFROAM 591G. Black Ecologies,(Undergrad/Graduate)
AFROAM 630. Critical Race Theories
AFROAM 691C. Historiographical Methods in Afro-American Studies
AFROAM 693G. Gender in the Civil Rights Movement

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