This course will explore cultural and legal concepts of race in America. A variety of contexts: poetry, memoirs, novels, will offer perspectives. Students should purchase the following:
Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (1927) Amistad, 2018.
Henry Louis Gates, Colored People (1994) Vintage, 1995.
George Takei, They Called Us Enemy (2018) Top Shelf, July 2019.
Chaim Potok The Chosen (1967) Fawcett, 1987.
T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain (1996) Penguin, 1996.
Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (2008) Penguin, 2009.
- Lehrende(r): Florian Freitag
- Lehrende(r): Melissa Knox-Raab