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(UNDER REVIEW) 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

ENGL 260 - Black Lives Matter: Race and Writing

4.00 credit hours
When activists today assert that “Black Lives Matter”, they are participating in a long tradition of protest that affirms the value of Black life. This course traces the historical evlauaiton of African American protest with a focus on writing, both fiction and nonfiction, with writers ranging from Richard Wright to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Zora Neale Hurston to Patrice Kahn-Cullors.


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