ENGL 2760P - The Fifties in Color: Race, Empire, and U.S. Cold War Culture

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Brown University

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Examines U.S. cultural texts of the '50s in relation to both domestic race politics and foreign policy concerns. Explores issues of assimilation, conflict, containment, development, and integration in a transnational as well as a national framework. Writers we study may include Bellow, Ellison, Himes, Kerouac, Roth, and Okada. This course is limited to 15 graduate students.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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