ENGL 210 - (Imagined) African American Geographies

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
With the emergence of human-centered geography, scholars have turned to many African American stories and other imaginative records (e.g., poetry and drama) as alternative (cognitive and affective) figurative mappings of both symbolic and real-world American spaces, places, and routes. Paired with selective theoretical works-from Tuan’s Space and Place to Lipsitz’ How Race Takes Place and Hunter and Robinson’s Chocolate Cities, we explore selected plantation, migration, and urban black narrative mappings to trace their grounded, subjective insights into lived experiences in history. Authors may include Crafts, Hurston, Wright, Petry, Himes, Whitehead. Recommended: paired with 211, Black Cleveland in Migration Narrative. Field trip(s) required.

This course is appropriate for new students.