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. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.


Floyd Patterson:
The Fighting Life of Boxing’s Invisible Champion

by W. K. Stratton
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

In the Shadow of the Gallows:
Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

by Jeannine Marie DeLombard
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

My Father’s War:
Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II

by Carolyn Ross Johnston
(University of Alabama Press)

The Black Revolution on Campus
by Martha Biondi
(University of California Press)

The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
by Stephen L. Carter
(Alfred A. Knopf)

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