Intro to Lit and Cult of Race
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
CRN: 16147
Times & Locations
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | TR | 2:10pm - 3:30pm | HS 240 |
Fall 2024 Detailed Description:
What is race? How does it matter and why? This course introduces students to very contemporary literature and media by and about ethnic Americans, specifically Black, Asian American, Native American, and Latinx subjects. What issues do the characters in these works face? What do their challenges mean for us? Novels, poems, essays, graphic narrative, pop culture, film. Possible texts include Orange’s Vanishing Stars; Ward’s Let Us Descend; selections from Castillo’s How to Read Now: Essays; selected poems by Ocean Vuong and Tayi Tibble; one graphic narrative. Students also will use materials in the UNH archive to research and write about race and UNH, past and present.
This course satisfies the Race, Gender & Postcolonial Studies requirement for English Majors.
This cousre satisfies the Race & Racial Theories requirement for English Literature, English: TBD, English/Journalism, English/Law 3+3, English Teaching Majors.
Booklist
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GOOD TALK:MEMOIR IN CONVERSATIONS
(19)
by JACOB Required
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YELLOWFACE
(23)
by KUANG Required
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