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FA 2012
American Culture
AMCULT 103 - First Year Seminar in American Studies
Section 007
Migrations in Black Literature

Course Note:

This course is designed to introduce students to a wide variety of topics and issues in American Studies in a seminar format from a Humanities perspective. It enables students to have contact with regular faculty in a small-class experience and to elicit their active participation in the topics under discussion.

Credits:

Requirements & Distribution:

Other:

FYSem

Waitlist Capacity:

unlimited

Consent:

With permission of instructor.

Advisory Prerequisites:

Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.

Repeatability:

May not be repeated for credit.

Meet Together Classes:

AAS 104 - Hum Seminar, Section 007

Primary Instructor:

Santamarina,Xiomara A

(real time availability for all sections)

This course engages with literature, film and music that feature Black characters migrating between regions, countries and islands. We will study the many media; short stories, blues songs, films, plays and novels; through which African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans represented their movement in time and space from slavery to freedom, from South to North, and from island to mainland, through the 20^th century down to the present. Black populations’ encounters with growing cities and new visual technologies, like films and photography, offered migrants numerous cultural experiences and venues for representing the conflicts, opportunities and challenges that accompanied the uprooting of families and traditions. Writers include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Gloria Naylor and Paule Marshall, among others.

Course Requirements:

Assignments include short responses, in-class presentations, a midterm and final day of class exam. Be prepared to do in-class writing assignments without advance notice.

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