Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Spring

This introduction to African American literature emphasizes how African American writers have expanded the traditional American literary canon. The course examines issues between, race, ethnicity, and writing as an African American from slavery until the present. Students read a variety of genres, literary and extra-literary, including poetry, fiction (both the novel and shorter fiction), belle lettres, sermons, and speeches.