Between 1910 and 1930 more than one million African Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban North. This course focuses on the development of African-American migration narratives from the slave era to the contemporary moment. It examines literary, musical, artistic, and journalistic representations of the Great Migrations that capture the experiences of African-Americana as they moved not only from the South to the North, but also from the South to the Midwest and the West in pursuit of better economic opportunities and political freedom. Readings are drawn from writers such as William and Ellen Craft, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, Pearl Cleage, August Wilson, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Colson Whitehead, and others. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. ENG 260, 265, or 266 are recommended but not required.