Recent ProfessorsNot yet assignedRecent SemestersNo scheduled sections on recordClass SizeNot publishedCredits3PrerequisiteCompletion of ENGL C1000 (or higher) or EMLS 10 (formerly ESL 10) or equivalent. Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionIn this course, students will explore the African American and Black voices that identify, express, describe, resist, defy, or break imperialism, exploitation, and oppression. Students will study a range of genres, such as fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, nonfiction, and comics from the earliest published work by African Americans through to the present day, emphasizing the public sociality of black lives and the responses to it. Students will also examine a diverse body of ideas that focus on the preoccupations of identity, freedom, mobility, sovereignty, and security as they relate to the African American experience. The content of this course will address how the artistic expressions of African Americans reflect these concerns and demonstrate how slavery and its abolition shape American history. 