Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. It brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself.

Black Studies Center is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases, including The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975.

This unique database examines interdisciplinary topics on the African experience throughout the Americas via in-depth essays accompanied by detailed timelines along with important research articles, images, video, and more.

Black Studies Center can be found on the Library’s Research Databases page.

For more information about Black Studies Center: http://bsc.chadwyck.com/infoCenter/infoCenter.do?page=about