FYSP 195 - James Baldwin’s America

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT

Drawing from both his literary and non-fiction work, this course examines how James Baldwin excavates, confronts, and rewrites his own story and the story of America through the lens and painful history of race. We will explore how Baldwin reads literature and film as racial ciphers, and learn to analyze how forms of literary and visual representation produce, rank, and value racial difference. This is a discussion based course that requires students to experiment with a range of writing styles and assignments, all organized around the question: what can Baldwin’s thought illuminate about race in America today?

Enrollment Limit: 16
Instructor: D. Schultz

Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes