Race and Resistance Studies 360 Cultural Dialogues and Ethnic Literatures
This
class is an introduction to the diversity of literature by US people of color;
which includes immigrants, sojourners, refugees, African Americans, Asian
Americans, Chicanas/os, Latinos/as, and Native Americans. We will be studying the works of authors and
the characters they write about: from those who come to America to those whose
land shifts beneath their feet, from Korea, to Hispaniola, to Los Angeles, and
the Channel Islands, working-class, middle class, urban and rural, fathers,
mothers, daughters, and sons, heterosexuals, gays, lesbians, two-spirit
peoples, first generation, third generation, twelfth generation, and all the
spaces in between. These exciting and
powerful works are read and studied in the US and internationally.