A survey of African-American literature from post-Reconstruction to the Black Arts Movement and beyond, with emphasis on selected genres, periods, and thematic characteristics of the later African-American cultural and literary experience to the present day. Topics include literature of the Reconstruction; poetry and dialect poetry, the "plantation tradition" and black musical traditions; Black Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; the Black Power movement and Civil Rights. Authors may include Pauline Hopkins, Frances Harper, Sutton Griggs, Oscar Micheaux, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and more. Lecture. Fulfills ENG major Historical Survey Requirement. Provides ENG minor credit.

A survey of African-American literature from post-Reconstruction to the Black Arts Movement and beyond, with emphasis on selected genres, periods, and thematic characteristics of the later African-American cultural and literary experience to the present day. Topics include literature of the Reconstruction; poetry and dialect poetry, the "plantation tradition" and black musical traditions; Black Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; the Black Power movement and Civil Rights. Authors may include Pauline Hopkins, Frances Harper, Sutton Griggs, Oscar Micheaux, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and more. Lecture. Fulfills ENG major Historical Survey Requirement. Provides ENG minor credit.