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Home > English > African American Literature

Unit | Southwest Philadelphia: What it was and how we see it today December 19, 2018

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Unit | Reconstruction: The Promises and Failures of Post-Civil War America

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Unit | Crossing Borders and Crossing Time: A Tableau of African Immigration and Migration in America December 17, 2018

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Unit | Love to Tell the Story: West African Expressions Come to West Philadelphia

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Unit | Bridging the Gap: Hip-Hop and the Second Generation English Romantic Poets

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Unit | The Sankofa – Hip Hop Connection

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Unit | Dissecting Lyrics

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Unit | Using Rap Lyrics as a Resource in the Secondary English Classroom

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Unit | Dance, Readings, Acting, Music, and Art (D.R.A.M.A.): A Study of African American Performing and Visual Arts in the 1940s – 1950s December 7, 2018

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Unit | Paul Robeson, African-American Artist, and the McCarthy Era

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Unit | Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White and the Taller de Grafica Popular of Mexico

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Unit | The Life and Work of Dox Thrash: An Expression of Identity

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Unit | Recurring Themes of African American Folktales December 10, 2018

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Unit | The Lesson the Piano Teaches: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and the African-American Experience It Illuminates

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Unit | Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and Students’ Poetic Perceptions of Contemporary Issues

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Unit | Exploring African American Culture Through Literature

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Unit | Jim Crow and Apartheid: Walking hand in hand to the Promised Land

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Unit | Poetry and Music of the Harlem Renaissance and Today November 30, 2018

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Unit | Soul to Spirit to Speak to Writers: Poetry and Song

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