AFRO 259

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

Afro-American Literature I

Credit: 3 hours.

Students must register for one discussion and one lecture section.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - US Minority

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AFRO 259 class schedule data for fall 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	34396	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	English Building	Bascom, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: US Minority Culture(s) course.
	55609	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: US Minority Culture(s) course. Section Info: This course surveys African American literature from the antebellum slave narratives to the essays of W.E.B. DuBois. In this course, we look at individual writers in their historical and political contexts, but also, we focus on the spiritual and affective power of African American prose. More importantly, the literary and sociopolitical appeal of African American literature from these early periods has been continuously drawn upon by social movements of the last fifty years. Thus, through close readings of writers like Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, and Ida B. Wells in context, students in this course will come away with a solid background in early African American literature and culture as well as its myriad of influences on current discussions of social inequality in the U.S.