Black Writers In American History

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Through exemplary works of literature, this course will examine the writings of African American poets, novelists, and essayists, and consider how their perspectives have shaped history for all Americans. Literary works under study will stretch across American history, including (but not limited to) the writings of Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.