Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2024

ALST 220   The Black Diaspora: Africans at Home and Abroad
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2025 Instr perm req during Drop/Add
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Liberal Arts PracticesConfront Collective Challenges The Process of Writing

Examines the responses of Africans and their descendants to the experiences of enslavement, racism, colonialism, and imperialism from the fifteenth century to the present; and analyzes the impact of the African presence on western "civilization." Students also explore the evolution of an African identity, particularly, an identification with the destiny of the African continent among African descendants in the Diaspora.