Cultures of the African Diaspora

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This course will deepen students’ knowledge of the African diaspora through the study of what some scholars have called “Africanisms,” a broad term that seeks to capture the wide array of technical skills, artistic practices, religious and spiritual beliefs, philosophies, linguistic patterns, and epistemologies that derive from the African continent and take root around the world. Though many of these practices continue in the present day, they are as likely to be found throughout the African diaspora in places such as the Panamanian city Colón, the Brazilian state of Bahia, and New York City as they are in Africa.