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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.


Educating a Diverse Nation:
Lessons from Minority-Serving Institutions
by Clifton Conrad and Marybeth Gasman
(Harvard University Press)

Physics of Blackness:
Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
by Michelle M. Wright
(University of Minnesota Press)

The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin
edited by Michele Elam
(Cambridge University Press)

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