Afro-American Literature

ENG

225

Afro-American Literature

This course is a survey of African American literature from its beginning to the present day, including the slavery era, the era of accommodation and protest, the Harlem Renaissance, the integrationist movement, the era of black aestheticism, and the post-1960's decades. Writers to be studied might include Wheatley, Douglass, DuBois, Hughes, McKay, Brown, Wright, Brooks, Walker, Ellison, Baldwin, Hansberry, Baraka, Morrison, Naylor, and Wilson, among others.CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-U.S. Experience in it's Diversity

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate LaGuardia CC

Yes

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