Black Student Life at USF
Below is a selection of articles from our Gleeson Library Digital Collections, including The Foghorn - USF Student Newspaper Archive, and Writing For A Real World. These articles were written by students and represent the Black student experience at the University of San Francisco throughout the decades, and the anti-racist scholarship created by students of color and student allies. You can also access Black Student Union records through our USF Scholarship Repository.
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The Foghorn - USF Student Newspaper Archive
- Carmichael Slams White PaternalismNovember 4, 1966, Page 5
- USF Negroes Plan Black Student UnionMarch 29, 1968, Page 3
- BSU ElectsSeptember 20, 1968, Page 1
- USF Starts Equal Opportunity as 16 Negroes Begin StudiesSeptember 20, 1968, Page 3
- Blacks Rap, Whites Listen, In Black Power Town HallMay 3, 1968, Page 5
- Black Pride USFApril 23, 1971, Page 1
- BSU: Working To Defy StereotypesNovember 20, 1997, Page 15
- Something to Talk About - BSUFebruary 5, 1998, Page 12
- Black ConsciousnessSeptember 19, 2002, Page 4
- African American Students Underrepresented at USFOctober 3, 2002, Page 1
- Tuskegee Airman Shares HistoryNovember 14, 2002, Page 1
- 'Expressions' Celebrates Black History and LoveFebruary 20, 2003, Page 1
- USF Community Reacts to Ferguson ShootingSeptember 11, 2014, Page 3
- USF Students Protest the Death of Stephon ClarkMarch 29, 2018, Page 4
Writing for a Real World
- Unwelcome in America: Family Separation and Child Detainment at the US-Mexico BorderEmma Rose Gault, Writing for a Real World 2018-2019, pp 78-112.
- Projecting Institutionalized RacismHannah Heyer, Writing for a Real World 2009-2010, pp 73-89.
- De Facto School Segregation: A Practice That Undermines Racial Equality and Long-Term National Prosperity.Nicholas Miller, Writing for a Real World 2002-2003, pp 17-23.
- In Honor of the Forgotten: A Search for Equity for Filipino-American World War II VeteransJillian Ramos, Writing for a Real World 2010-2011, pp 152-163.
- The Hamitic Hypothesis: A Pseudo-Historical Justification for White Superiority.Travis Sharp, Writing for a Real World, 2004-2005, pp 59-72.