Already have the American Literature: Social Transformations Coursebook? This package includes all the reading books necessary to complete the course:
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
- Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
- Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss
Representing a diverse set of voices the course centers on the intersection of literature history and current events. This literature package supports students in their study of how American literature reflects and contributes to social transformations.
American culture has undergone countless social transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Today new social transformations are underway.
Students read a selection of fiction poetry and essays that explore important topics in American culture: the efforts for liberation that African Americans have engaged in during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries the motives that have brought immigrants to the United States and the environmental struggles that have created tensions between various segments of society. Students examine themes such as xenophobia bias and the legacy of the past through the lens of different settings and perspectives.
