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Class number:
3493
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Title: Unveiled: Early Black Voices |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 6 |
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Available seats: 9 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM, 115V - 103 |
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Instructor(s): Paulin, Diana |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities & Identity Power Equity Req |
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Note: For English majors, this course fulfills the additional 100-level, post-1800, elective, additional literature or film, and UVSJ requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s IPE and HUM requirements. |
Course Description:
This course surveys African American literature in a variety of genres from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Through the study of texts by Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, Julia Collins, William and Ellen Craft, Charles Chesnutt, Paul Dunbar, Ida Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, we will explore how these writers represented and influenced the history of people of African descent in the U.S., from slavery and abolition to early struggles for civil rights; how their work has intervened in racial formation and imagined the black diaspora; how literary innovations have engaged with continuing political questions of nation, gender, sexuality, and class. |