| Credits | 1 |
| Restrictions | No 2026 2025 Instr perm req during Drop/Add |
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| Core Area | Communities |
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| Liberal Arts Practices |
New York State has the third largest African American population in the U.S. While most of that population is concentrated down-state, the cities and rural areas of central Upstate New York are rich in African American history and culture. Through an interdisciplinary lens with emphasis on the arts and humanities, students explore the experiences of Black communities in Upstate New York by posing questions about Black bondage, incarceration, emancipation, politics, cultural traditions, religion, and entrepreneurship and their relationship to place. Students also approaches these questions through an intimate look at the lived experiences and life histories of individual Black Upstate New Yorkers, both past and present, including those belonging to the Colgate community. Through these stories, students learn how Black in Upstate New York have not only endured the often racialized, violent, and lethal histories of the region, but how they have also made history.