ABSTRACT
The author is from the Bronx, New York, and though she looks like "average" African-American female, she is in fact of Garifuna Honduran descent. One of the first things that jumped out to her about Learning Community was that most of the students were African-American and female. All through high school she got lectured on how diverse her college campus would be, how she would be a minority in the sense that it applies to those of Afro-, Latin-, Asian- or Indian-American descent and actually be the only Black face in her classroom. Foundations of Inquiry were easily her favorite class, followed by Africana Studies and then Sociology even though these were probably the most difficult classes. They read accounts that spoke to the history of Buffalo and about ancient rules of governance that still apply today.
