Black Studies Center Now Available

USC has just purchased ProQuest's Black Studies Center, which includes the complete full-text run of the Chicago Defender and many other resources important for a wide range of fields.

BSC includes:

• The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, which includes interdisciplinary essays written by leading scholars. The Schomburg resources include:
  • Schomburg Essays -- on topics such as Theory, Method, and Pedagogy; Ideology, Identity and Assumptions; Origins; Cultural Life; and more
  • "Required Reading" -- selected from articles, book chapters, and dissertations
  • A Timeline and Timeline Related Materials
  • Video clips
  • Images
    

• Journal indexes
  
  • The International Index to Black Periodicals, which covers scholarly and popular Black Studies journals, including full text for many titles, and
    
  • The Marshall Index, which is a guide to black periodicals, 1940-1946.
    

• Newspapers (full text backfiles), including:
  • The Chicago Defender (1910 - 1975)
    
  • The Daily Defender (1956-1975)
    
  • The Los Angeles Sentinel (1969-2005) -- this summer, we got the Historical Los Angeles Sentinel, from 1946-2005
    

• The Black Literature Index -- this provides over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.