With an interdisciplinary reach that will connect departments, programs, and faculties across the university, the BA in Black Studies will serve to educate the Queen’s community about the histories and contemporary struggles of African and Black diasporic communities. Complementing and extending existing courses and research clusters that attend to Black Studies, African Studies, Black Diaspora Studies and Caribbean Studies, as well as studies of race and belonging, the plan will introduce students to a variety of perspectives that emphasize equity, social justice, and building cross-community alliances. The Black Studies Minor will provide students with the opportunity to produce new knowledge, study, teach, and centre anti-oppression in interdisciplinary settings—building on and extending the creative and intellectual work of Black communities in local-global contexts. The Black Studies Minor will encourage collaborative learning and draw attention to respectfully engaging, and deploying, multiple epistemologies from across disciplines. Upper-year courses offer opportunities to engage in activist and community work and cultural production, as well as small reading and theory intensive projects.