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.
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Black Muslims in the US: History, Politics, and the Struggle of a Community by Samory Rashid (Palgrave Macmillan) |
From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought by Celucien L. Joseph (CreateSpace) |
Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250-1914 edited by Mischa Honeck et al. (Berghahn Books) |
Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism: Music, “Race,” and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945 by Jeremy F. Lane (University of Michigan Press) |
Philanthropy in Black Higher Education: A Fateful Hour Creating the Atlanta University System by Vida L. Avery (Palgrave Macmillan) |
The Grasp That Reaches Beyond the Grave: The Ancestral Call in Black Women’s Texts by Venetria K. Patton (State University of New York Press) |
The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Matt Richardson (Ohio State University Press) |
Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels by Courtney Thorsson (Unversity of Virginia Press) |