Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2024-2025
ENGL 572 - BLACK IN THE STACKS
Long Title: BLACK ARCHIVES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Description: This course historicizes Black archive studies and its theoretical development across literary studies. Inspired by Schomburg’s call “to dig up our past,” it explores how black writers, collectors, and librarians across the twentieth-century resisted long-standing efforts to bury, silence, and overwrite black experience and their contributions.