Spring 2019  |  ENGL 8300 Section 001: Seminar in American Minority Literature -- Lit, Politics, and Culture of the Civil Rights Era (64764)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Meets With:
AMST 8920 Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Thu 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 202
Enrollment Status:
Closed (8 of 8 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Sample topics: Harlem Renaissance, ethnic autobiographies, Black Arts movement. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
"Literature, Politics, and Culture of the Civil Rights Era" will examine African American literature of the 1950s-1970s, theoretical interventions in the era's political debates (by a range of thinkers including James Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, and others) with a particular focus on how Civil Rights struggles impacted black nationalist and Marxian discourses, and the ways in which the rhetoric and political strategies of Civil Rights continue to shape race-based activism in the present moment.
Class Description:
"Literature, Politics, and Culture of the Civil Rights Era" will examine African American literature of the 1950s-1970s, theoretical interventions in the era's political debates (by a range of thinkers including James Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, and others) with a particular focus on how Civil Rights struggles impacted black nationalist and Marxian discourses, and the ways in which the rhetoric and political strategies of Civil Rights continue to shape race-based activism in the present moment.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64764/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 April 2018

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