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.
Disposable Heroes: The Betrayal of African American Veterans by Benjamin Fleury-Steiner (Rowman & Littlefield) |
Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation by Grethen Long (University of North Carolina Press) |
Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk’s Public Schools by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford (University of Virginia Press) |
James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier’s Story by Henry T. Gallagher and Gene Roberts (University Press of Mississippi) |
The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family by Joe Mozingo (Free Press) |
The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas by Vera M. Kutzinski (Cornell University Press) |