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.


A Criminal Power:
James Baldwin and the Law

by D. Quentin Miller
(Ohio State University Press)

Emancipating Lincoln:
The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory

by Harold Holzer
(Harvard University Press)

Remaking Wormsloe Plantation:
The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape

edited by Drew A. Swanson
(University of Georgia Press)

Representing the Race:
The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer

by Kenneth W. Mack
(Harvard University Press)

Streetsmart, Schoolsmart:
Urban Poverty and the Education of Adolescent Boys

by Gilberto Q. Conchas and James Diego Vigil
(Teachers College Press)

The Problem of Slavery as History:
A Global Approach

by Joseph C. Miller
(Yale University Press)

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  1. I find “Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars” to be a very valuable feature in the JBHE Weekly Bulletin. I use this list to order books for the library.

    Thanks for alerting us to the latest publications.

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