Afro-American Studies 667 - Afro-Am Image in Amer. Lit.
Fall
2026
01
4.00
James Smethurst
TH 4:00PM 6:30PM
UMass Amherst
20363
New Africa House room 302
jsmethur@afroam.umass.edu
An intensive survey of the portrayals of Afro-Americans in American literature, examining how characters, themes, and ideas are portrayed when filtered through the race, gender, class, politics, historical time frame, and individual artistic aesthetic of a variety of writers.