This course is a fast-paced and immersive introduction to key ideas, eras, and movements in the history of African American literature. We will read some of the most important, impactful, moving, and thought-provoking texts in the history of American literature, using them to consider the infinite variety of Black experience and the profound ways in which race has shaped the nation’s sense of society and community cross time. This is literature of power, protest, peace, justice, struggle, suffering, and joy.
Online asynchronous
Course poster for ENG 2120, African American Literature, Dr. Michael Docherty, Spring 2027, online asynchronous: raised fists and the word "Unite" in orange and purple screenprint style.
