Black Studies is the interdisciplinary study of people of African descent, with a particular focus on the United States.  As a field, Black Studies explores the relationship between white domination and black resistance and explicates the histories and legacies of slavery, the slave trade, colonialism and imperialism throughout the African Diaspora.  It also interrogates the formative historical influence of people of African descent upon the mapping and making of Western Civilization and articulations of globality created through the Black radical tradition.