Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African-American Scholars

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.


Freedom With Violence:
Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State

by Chandan Reddy
(Duke University Press)

Making Race:
Modernism and “Racial Art” in America

by Jacqueline Francis
(University of Washington Press)

Preventing Electoral Violence in Africa
edited by Jendayi Frazer
(Carnegie Mellon University Press)

The Archaeology of Antislavery Resistance
by Terrance M. Weik
(University Press of Florida)

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