The Africana and Latin American Studies (ALST) Program is an interdisciplinary program that studies the histories and cultures, both material and expressive, of the peoples of Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, and African Americans in the United States. It draws heavily from several disciplines in the humanities (art, language, literature, music) and the social sciences (anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, political science, and sociology), as well as educational studies, philosophy, psychology, religion, and writing and rhetoric.
We offer a major and a minor concentration in the
following areas:
• African Studies • Caribbean Studies
• African American Studies • Latin American Studies
United by a shared historical connection within the Atlantic world, these geographical areas and the diverse peoples who inhabit them provide rich opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative studies. The program aims to promote an understanding both of the constituent regions individually and their mutual interdependence. It offers students the opportunity to study one particular area in relation to others in the wider Atlantic world with which it shares a historical and cultural connection. It examines the indigenous civilizations of these regions and studies the impact of migration, imperialism and colonialism, racism, nationalism, and globalization in shaping the lives, ideas, and cultural identities of their inhabitants.
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