This writing intensive course is intended to introduce students to the literature and film of the black diaspora. We will focus on African American, Caribbean, and African literature to examine differences and similarities within their respective narratives in regards to issues of race and racism. We will concentrate on representations of black migration throughout a host of time periods and spaces. For example, we will interrogate the literary representations of African American migration from the South to the North during the Great Migration while also reading narratives from the Caribbean concerned with representing migration to former colonial countries. Additionally, we will examine a contemporary African migration novel to examine how identity shifts in accordance to a particular social space.
