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 Americans and Criminal Justice:
An Encyclopedia

edited by Delores Jones-Brown et al.
(Greenwood Publishing)

Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States
by Michael E. Woods
(Cambridge University Press)


Jean Toomer:
Race, Repression, and Revolution

by Barbara Foley
(University of Illinois Press)


Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary
edited by Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow
(Bloomsbury Academic)


The Captive Stage:
Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

by Douglas A. Jones Jr.
(University of Michigan Press)

The Modern Land-Grant University
edited by Robert J. Sternberg
(Purdue University Press)

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