Mar 27, 2026  
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

ENGL 642 - Black Literary History

Credit(s): 3
BLACK LITERARY HISTORY
Component: Lecture
Black activists of the nineteenth century are called abolitionists so routinely that the appellation goes unmarked and unnoticed. This class will re-center Black activism in relation to the Colored Conventions Movement, which shared its genesis with the antebellum abolitionist movement, but continued, indeed grew, in scope and force after the Civil War.
Repeatable for Credit: N Allowed Units: 3 Multiple Term Enrollment: N Grading Basis: Student Option
Crosslisted: May be crosslisted with HIST 642  and AFRA 644 
Course Typically Offered: Fall