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.


Knowledge, Power, and Black Politics:
Collected Essays

by Mack H. Jones
(State University of New York Press)

Legal Fictions:
Constituting Race, Composing Literature

by Karla FC Holloway
(Duke University Press)

Malcolm X:
A Biography

by A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh
(Greenwood)

Other People’s English:
Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy

by Vershawn Ashanti Young et al.
(Teachers College Press)

Peace Be Still:
Modern Black America from World War II to Barack Obama

by Matthew C. Whitaker
(University of Nebraska Press)

Say It Loud:
Black Studies, Its Students, and Racialized Collegiate Culture

by Regina Bernard-Carreno
(Peter Lang Publishing)

The Civil Rights Movement:
Brown v. Board of Education

by David Aretha
(Morgan Reynolds Publishing)

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