Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

books-pileThe 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.


African American Males and Education:
Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity

by T. Elon Dancy II and M. Christopher Brown III
(Information Age Publishing)

Creole Indigeneity:
Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean

by Shona N. Jackson
(University of Minnesota Press)

Divining the Self:
A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness

by Velma E. Love
(Penn State University Press)

Face Value:
The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

by Michael O’Malley
(University of Chicago Press)

Genocide Lives In Us:
Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda

by Jennie E. Burnet
(University of Wisconsin Press)

Hollywood’s Africa After 1994
by MaryEllen Higgins
(Ohio University Press)

Reckoning Day:
Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America

by Jacqueline Foertsch
(Vanderbilt University Press)


The Predicament of Blackness:
Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race

by Jemima Pierre
(University of Chicago Press)

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