This course features mostly U.S. literary texts that represent cross-century encounters with what DuBois named “the color line.” We will explore texts’ and readerships’ relationships to raced, sexed and gendered hierarchies, considered Immigration as "Whiteness of a Different Color," and make use of interdisciplinary contexts and methods. This class will require additional meetings to be scheduled during the semester for group work, writing instruction, and other activities. These times will be flexible, but the class does require that students have some time available for such meetings, as well as time for extensive reading.