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.


Chronicles of a Two-Front War:
Civil Rights and Vietnam in the African American Press

by Lawrence Allen Eldridge
(University of Missouri Press)

Cultivating Food Justice:
Race, Class, and Sustainability

edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman
(MIT Press)

Remaking Race and History:
The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller

by Renee Ater
(University of California Press)

Righteous Violence:
Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance

by Larry J. Reynolds
(University of Georgia Press)

Trust in Black America:
Race, Discrimination, and Politics

by Shayla C. Nunnally
(New York University Press)

White Parents, Black Children:
Experiencing Transracial Adoption

by Darron T. Smith et al.
(Rowman & Littlefield)

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