ENG 62A Race and Ethnicity in Literature

Units: 3
Advisories: Ability to read at the 12th grade level.
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. (CSU)