CLCV 224
spring 2021
All Classes
American Race and Ethnicity in the Classical Tradition
Credit: 3 hours.
Survey of American minority cultures and the reception of Greco-Roman culture in literature, film, and politics, with brief units of historical concentration on ancient slavery and proto-racism, Harvard's Indian College, early African-American poets, novelists, educators, and classicists, the Greco-Roman heritage of the Ku Klu Klan, and Civil Rights Movement leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Huey P. Newton, and Eldridge Cleaver. Other highlights include Derek Walcott's Caribbean/Homeric Omeros, Erin Gruwell's mixed-race Freedom Writers, and Spike Lee's Chi-Raq.
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Spring 2021 for:
- Cultural Studies - US Minority
- Humanities – Lit & Arts
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