CLCV 224 AL - Amer Race&Ethnicity ClasicTrad
Campus: Urbana-Champaign
Description:
Survey of American minority cultures and the reception of Greco-Roman culture in literature, film, and politics, with brief units of historical concentration on ancient slavery and proto-racism, Harvard's Indian College, early African-American poets, novelists, educators, and classicists, the Greco-Roman heritage of the Ku Klu Klan, and Civil Rights Movement leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Huey P. Newton, and Eldridge Cleaver. Other highlights include Derek Walcott's Caribbean/Homeric Omeros, Erin Gruwell's mixed-race Freedom Writers, and Spike Lee's Chi-Raq.
Special Instructions:
Mix of asynchronous and synchronous meetings.
Option 1
Number of Required Visit(s): 0Course Level: Undergraduate
Credit: 0
Term(s): Fall
