LITR 5731: Seminar in
American Minority Literature
University of Houston-Clear Lake, Spring 2003
Index to Sample Student Midterms

Below are links to midterm essay exams completed for this course. These midterms appear as submitted. In some cases, transmissions between incompatible softwares stripped out paragraphing, underlines, italics, etc. Therefore these projects may contain errors in editing and format in addition to those attributable to human error. These copies are posted, however, so that students may share their work and students in future courses may see a range of topics for a course of this nature.

Students whose work is represented below are invited to submit edited versions to replace these submissions, but such upgrades are not required.

Tomasina Alford, "Significant References in African American Literature"

Jane Ftacnik, "Precious, Corinthians, and Douglass: Literacy as relief from oppression?"

Ginger Hilton, "Dream Weavers: Visibility through Education and Memories"

Rosalyn Mack, "Names and Naming: A Battle for Identity in African American Literature"

Elizabeth Martin, "I'll Fly Away, Oh Glory: The Flight of the Africans, from Myth to Reality"

Alcira Molina, "Fly Me to the Moon: Exploring the Theme of Flight in African American Literature"

Martin Perez, "Hope and Hopelessness through Religion, Flight, and Literacy"

Ashley Salter, "Collective Tale vs. Personal Story in The Slave Narratives, Song of Solomon and Push"

Sergio Santos, "Desire in Douglass, Morrison and Sapphire"

Toni Sammons, "Literacy and Assimilation: The Necessary Evil"

Craig Sprowl, "Treated as Animals: The African-American Struggle to Regain Self-Value"

Jana Stafford, "African American Songs and Poetry: A Long Tradition of Escape"