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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.


Lincoln and Liberty:
Wisdom for the Ages
edited by Lucas E. Morel
(University Press of Kentucky)

Roland Hayes:
The Legacy of an American Tenor
by Christopher A. Brooks and Robert Sims
(Indiana University Press)

Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South
by Damian Alan Pargas
(Cambridge University Press)

Sylvia Wynter:
On Being Human as Praxis
edited by Katherine McKittrick
(Duke University Press)

The Obama Administration and Educational Reform
edited by Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher
(Emerald Books)

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