MHU 363 African-American Literature

A survey of the principal contributors to American literature made by Black writers, especially in the twentieth century, including slave narratives and early protest writing, the debate between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, the Black Arts Movement, and contemporary writers such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson and August Wilson.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Metropolitan School of Professional Studies undergraduate students only