ENG 62A Race and Ethnicity in Literature

Units: 3
The course explores race and ethnicity in the United States though contemporary multicultural literature from all genres and from diverse ethnic groups such as African American, Asian/Pacific Islander American, Indigenous American, and Chicanx/Latinx American. Students will uncover how authors of contemporary multicultural literature reflect on, negotiate, and/or resist hierarchy and oppression. Additional themes of the course include assimilation, classism, ethnocentrism, racism, ableism, colorism, and/or sexism. (HBCU, UC, CSU)