3.00 Credits
Important writers of the African American literary tradition from the 18th century to 1930, beginning with African folklore and ending with works produced during the Harlem Renaissance. Wheatley, Walker, Douglass, Dunbar, Washington, DuBois, McKay, Hughes, Larsen, Hurston, and others. Works and writers approached in relation to the cultural, social, and historical background from which they emerged.