This course surveys African-American history and literature from 1845 to the present, from Frederick Douglass and the Harlem Renaissance writers that originate from Howard University (Zora Hurston and Alain Locke). The course examines issues of race and caste from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ memoire Between the World and Me. The course uses the location of Washington, DC as a resource, visiting the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Howard University, the National Museum of African-American Culture and History, and the Martin Luther King Memorial Site.
