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)

Related Articles

Leave a Reply

Get the JBHE Weekly Bulletin

Receive our weekly email newsletter delivered to your inbox

Latest News

Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans

Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.

American Students Studying Abroad in Sub-Saharan Africa

In the 2021-22 academic year, there were 4,614 American students who studied at universities in sub-Saharan Africa. This is about one tenth of the number of students from sub-Saharan Africa studying at U.S. universities.

Marcus L. Thompson Named the Thirteenth President of Jackson State University

Dr. Thompson has more than 20 years of leadership experience in early childhood, K-12 education, and higher education. He has been serving as the deputy commissioner and chief administrative officer of the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, where for over a decade he has been responsible for overseeing IHL staff.

U.S. Public Schools Remain Separate and Unequal

Approximately 522,400 students, or 1 percent of overall student enrollment, attended public schools where fewer than half of the teachers met all state certification requirements. Of the students attending those schools, 66 percent were Black and Latino students.

Featured Jobs