Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionThis introduction to African American literature emphasizes how African American writers have expanded the traditional American literary canon. The course examines issues between, race, ethnicity, and writing as an African American from slavery until the present. Students read a variety of genres, literary and extra-literary, including poetry, fiction (both the novel and shorter fiction), belle lettres, sermons, and speeches. 