About BSI

The USC Black Studies Initiative fosters, promotes, and disseminates Black studies research, scholarship, teaching, and community engagement.
The BSI team aims to:

• Provide a home for scholarly research and dialogue that centers the historical, political, cultural, artistic, and
intellectual experiences of the African Diaspora
• Support connections and collaborations among students and faculty, and among scholars and communities within
and beyond USC
• Advance global, transnational, and local understandings of Blackness with attention to Africa, the United States,
Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America