This course reads texts by black and non-black writers that deal with versions of African American history and future. We will discuss narratives, pamphlets, manifestos, and speeches as well as essays, novels and short stories that address individual and collective black histories and that imagine the place and future of black people in America from black and non-black perspectives. Our discussions will explore how different historical periods, crucial events, and individual life stories are dramatized in these texts, while also investigating how black authors fashioned their writings in ways to reach (mainly) white audiences in periods when these were the only audiences available.
- Trainer/in: Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez
Semester: ST 2025