The University of South Carolina Press partners with JSTOR and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library for Black History Month
The University of South Carolina Press is proud to partner with JSTOR and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library to support readers seeking to engage with BIPOC+Q-authors by contributing to a complementary extensive open library that provides scholars, students, and the general public with free access to vital scholarship around the international discourse about the Black experience, anti-racism, and liberation.
The University of South Carolina Press is pleased to offer a chapter from each of the following books as part of the initiative:
- 101 African Americans Who Shaped South Carolina
- A True Likeness
- Bodily Evidence
- Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina
- Howard Thurman
- I Belong to South Carolina
- Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature
- Southern Writers Bear Witness
- Toni Morrison's Fiction
- Understanding Colson Whitehead
- Understanding James Baldwin
- Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks
This initiative complements the UofSC Press’s mission to deepen and expand collective engagement with Black creative and intellectual expression.
The full list can be viewed here (Google doc).
Read more about the initiative here: daily.jstor.org/schomburg-list
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