AFRO 298

Spring 2012 All Classes

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Spec Topics African-Am Studies

Credit: 3 hours.

Seminar on selected topics with particular emphasis on current research trends.

May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: AFRO 100 or AFRO 101, or consent of instructor.

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AFRO 298 class schedule data for spring 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	57392	Lecture-Discussion	BD	3:00PM -4:20PM	TR	1110 Foreign Languages Building	Dolinar, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Section Title: Chicago Renaissance Section Info: Course Description This class will be an introduction to African American authors from what is known as the Chicago Renaissance. We will explore the different ways in which figures such as Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorraine Hansberry have written about Chicago. We will look at how they recreated the sights and sounds of the historic ?Bronzeville? district?the street corners, soap box orators, restaurants, theaters, and night clubs. We will consider the various influences scholars have cited as shaping this period such as the Chicago school of sociology, the New Deal, black radicalism, and women?s activism. We will learn about influential South Side institutions like the Hall Branch Library, South Side Community Arts Center, and Rosenwald apartments, where writers lived and worked. We will discuss about the literary modes these writers worked in, whether free verse, social realism, or modernism. Students will be asked to perform close readings on chosen texts to look at the different ways black writers have depicted their city.