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.


After Slavery:
Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South

edited by Bruce Baker and Brian Kelly
(University Press of Florida)

Contemporary African American Literature:
The Living Canon

edited by Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner
(Indiana University Press)

Overcoming Disadvantage in Education
by Stephen Gorard and Beng Huat See
(Routledge)

Swift to Wrath:
Lynching in Global Historical Perspective

edited by William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep
(University of Virginia Press)


The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World
by Nathaniel Millett
(University Press of Florida)

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