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376 Issues and Problems in Black Literature and Culture Summer 2013, Session I, TH 6 10 PM Race(ing) the Train Car in African-American Literature What does it mean to have been working on the railroad? When did slavery end in the United States? How might public space make race? What do trains and railroads have to do with identity? How does ones gender affect his or her experience of the train car? When is the train car able to function as a site of resistance? For more information, please email Tasia Milton at tasiam@eden.rutgers.edu

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