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.


Black-Brown Solidarity:
Racial Politics in the New Gulf South

by John D. Marquez
(University of Texas Press)

Black Mayors, White Majorities:
The Balancing Act of Racial Politics

by Ravi K. Perry
(University of Nebraska Press)

Inside African Politics
by Pierre Englebert and Kevin C. Dunn
(Lynne Rienner Publishers)

Paul Robeson:
A Watched Man

by Jordan Goodman
(Verso)

Raised Up Down Yonder:
Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama

by Angela McMillan Howell
(University Press of Mississippi)

Roy Wilkins:
The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP

by Yvonne Ryan
(University Press of Kentucky)

Saving the Soul of Georgia:
Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights

by Maurice C. Daniels
(University of Georgia Press)

To March for Others:
The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers

by Lauren Araiza
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Yemoja:
Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas

edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola
(State University of New York Press)

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