The 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.
  Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery by Adam Rothman (Harvard University Press) |
  Byline, Richard Wright: Articles from the Daily Worker and New Masses edited by Earle V. Bryant (University of Missouri Press) |
  Defying Jim Crow: African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans 1900-1960 by Donald E. Devore (Louisiana State University Press) |
  Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean by James Davis (Columbia University Press) |
  Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice by Krista Thompson (Duke University Press) |
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  The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation by Sharon Willis (University of Minnesota Press) |
  Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi by Tiyi M. Morris (University of Georgia Press) |
