ENGL 3404 — African American Rhetorical Traditions

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath IC

Examines and organizes the ways that African Americans have historically maintained their humanity and negotiated freedom through discourse. Explores various discursive practices of African American discourse communities—such as the enslaved, abolitionists, feminists, nationalist/revolutionaries, and entertainers—to engage discussions about freedom, access to democracy, racial uplift, gender equity, and the discursive and recursive nature of racial identity. Studies historical contexts and current sociopolitical dynamics emphasizing the Black Jeremiad, civil rights rhetoric, the Black Power Movement, Black Feminist Thought, and Hip-Hop.

Prerequisites

• one of:
  • ENGW 1102 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
  • ENGW 1111 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
  • ENGW 1113 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
  • ENGW 1114 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)

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