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English 4300: African American Literature
African American Literature Syllabus
Revised African American Literature Syllabus
Final Exam Study Guide ***
Midterm Study Guide
Final Paper Guidelines
Response Papers Guidelines
Brief Author Bios
Poetry Response Assignments
What Is My Grade?
Early Literature
Uplift Literature
Harlem Renaissance Literature and Beyond
Phillis Wheatley Poetry
Excerpts Notes On The State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States by Martin R. Delaney
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
What to a Slave by Frederick Douglass
The Color Line by Frederick Douglass
The Future of the Colored Race by Frederick Douglass
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
The Goophered Grapevine by Charles Chesnutt
Po Sandy by Charles Chesnutt
The Wife of Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line By Charles Chesnutt (The Sheriff’s Children is also in this collection)
Up From Slavery 1-2,5 by Booker T. Washington
The Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
The Talented Tenth by W.E.B. DuBois
We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The New Negro by Alain Locke
The Negro-Art Hokum By George Schuyler
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes
Excerpts from The Best of Jesse B. Simple by Langston Hughes
Criteria for Negro Art by W.E.B. DuBois
How It Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neal Hurston
Claude McKay Poems
Countee Cullen Poetry
Langston Hughes Poetry
Court Order Can't Make Races Mix by Zora Neal Hurston
Richard Wright's Review of Their Eyes Were Watching God
Locke's Review of Their Eyes Were Watching God
On Being White and Other Lies by James Baldwin
Hurston's Review of Wright's Uncle Tom's Children
Blueprint for Negro Writing by Richard Wright
Excerpt From Invisible Man
Everybody's Protest Novel by James Baldwin
Many Thousand Gone by James Baldwin
Black Arts Movement
Contemporary Literature
Background Material
Bloodline by Ernest Gaines
Power and Racism by Stokely Carmichael
Cultural Strangulation by Addison Gayle
The Function of Black Literature by Addison Gayle
Black Arts Movement by Larry Neal
Amiri Baraka Poems
Appropriation of Cultures by Percival Everett
The New Black Aesthetic by Trey Ellis
Does African American Literature Exist? by Kenneth Warren
The End of the Black American Narrative by Charles Johnson
Post Racial America Or We Know Not by Jacqueline A. Blackwell
Patricia Smith Poems
Terrance Hayes
· How to Draw a Perfect Circle
· The Golden Shovel
· Democracy Is Dying
· Talk
The Invention of the White Race by Allen
American Slavery American Freedom by Morgan