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.


Africa After Apartheid:
South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania

by Richard A. Schroeder
(Indiana University Press)

Families in Crisis in the Old South:
Divorce, Slavery, and the Law

by Loren Schweninger
(University of North Carolina Press)


Living Color:
The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color

by Nina G. Jablonski
(University of California Press)


Race Defaced:
Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility

by Christopher Kyriakides and Rodolfo D. Torres
(Stanford University Press)

Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters:
The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America

by Victoria W. Wolcott
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
edited by Daniel Martinez HoSang et al.
(University of California Press)

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
by Beth Tompkins Bates
(University of North Carolina Press)

Related Articles

Leave a Reply

Get the JBHE Weekly Bulletin

Receive our weekly email newsletter delivered to your inbox

Latest News

Vanderbilt’s New Center for Research on Inequality and Health

The center’s scholarship aims to deepen society’s understanding of the causes of health-related inequalities, how they intersect, and how they affect population health. The center’s research hopes to formulate potential solutions to these challenges through advocacy, intervention, and public policy.

The Official Poverty Rate for African Americans Is the Lowest in History

The bad news is that In 2022, the Black poverty rate was still more than double to rate for non-Hispanic Whites. In 2022, 22.3 percent of all Black children lived in poverty.

Berenecea Johnson Eanes Will Be the Next President of California State University, Los Angeles

Since 2020, Dr. Eanes has served as president of York College of the City University of New York. She served as vice president for student affairs at California State University, Fullerton from 2012 to 2019. She will begin her new job in January.

Prior to the Pandemic, White Children Were Three Times as Likely to Be Homeschooled Than Black Children

In 2019, Some 4 percent of all White children were homeschooled, compared to 1.2 percent of Black children. Thus, Whites were more than three times as likely as Blacks to be homeschooled. The most commonly reported reasons for homeschooling were concern about the school environment.

Featured Jobs