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.


Blackness and Disability:
Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions

edited by Christopher M. Bell
(Michigan State University Press)

Facing Social Class:
How Societal Rank Influences Interaction

edited by Susan T. Fiske and Hazel Rose Markus
(Russell Sage Foundation)

“If You Were Only White”:
The Life of Leroy “Satchel” Paige

by Donald Spivey
(University of Missouri Press)

Political Antislavery Discourse and American Literature of the 1850s
by David Grant
(University of Delaware Press)

Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis:
Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago

by Preston H. Smith III
(University of Minnesota Press)

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