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Race in American Literature

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/2/25 - 12/12/25
MoWe 1p.m. – 2:15p.m.		 Wheatley-Peters W01-0009 3 $2065 (guest students)
Date
9/2/25 - 12/12/25
Time
MoWe 1p.m. – 2:15p.m.
Location
Wheatley-Peters W01-0009
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$2065 (guest students)

Description

This course reads exemplary U.S. novels and poems that spotlight and conceal the racial realities of our culture, drawing particular attention to the way our national ideas about race originate in the history of slavery and genocide. the course focuses on the ways in which attitudes about race in U.S. literature inform discourses of criminality, of femininity, of science, of primitivism, of passing, and of servitude, to name a few. Authors may include William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Rollin Ridge, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Mark Twain, James Weldon Johnson, George Schuyler, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Gloria Anzaldua, and others.

Prerequisites

ENGL 200 or 201 or 202

Guest registration opens August 18

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Course Details

Session

Regular Academic Session

Class Dates

9/2/2025 - 12/12/2025

Location

Wheatley-Peters W01-0009

General Ed Requirements

The Arts

Enrolled / Capacity

11 / 25

Status

Closed

Instructor

Keyana Parks

Tuition*

$2065 (guest students)

* The tuition estimate is based on minimum, single-course cost to a new student who is a Massachusetts resident and not enrolled in a multi-course program. State residency, online/in person modality, and matriculation to a degree program may affect cost.

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