IDS 2022 - Coffee, Tea and Chocolate: Oppression and Liberation in the African Diaspora

Credits: 4
“Coffee, Tea and Chocolate: Oppression and Liberation in the African Diaspora” describes the central roles of these commodities in the development of the global economy, which have often fed human impulses for pleasure and greed resulting in the oppression of peoples in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and North America. This course will entail an interdisciplinary examination of the political, historical and social forces shaping the relationships between colonizers and the colonized, industry and consumers, managers and workers, and governments and citizens. Students will define the concepts of African diaspora and pan-Africanism using the basic tools of political science with contributions from literature, philosophy, sociology, psychology and history. The course will be taught in a seminar style with the expectation that all students will contribute to the course.

McDaniel Plan: International nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding