Ithaca College

The African Diaspora[1] minor is one of four minors that the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity was mandated to develop through a curricular focus on traditionally marginalized, under-represented, or misrepresented groups in the U.S. The point of such a focus is to prepare students to meet the increasingly complex demands of living in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and poly-cultural world.

The courses will cover a broad range of issues, from the historically constructed and contested nature of identity to issues of cultural representation and social justice and will allow students to: 1. Study the Self in relationship to the Other, use historical and comparative methodologies for developing a contextual understanding of the issues being studied, 2. Combine epistemological /theoretical concerns with an analysis of "real-life" problems as a way to understand the relationship between theory and practice, 3. Develop a critical approach to the processes of knowledge construction; and 4. Explore the linkages between U.S. and global politics, economics, culture, etc. Please paste the following link into your browser for more details: https://www.ithaca.edu/cscre/africandiasporaminor/