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.


Black Feminism in Education:
Black Women Speak Back, Up, & Out

by Venus E. Evans-Winters and Bettina L. Love
(Peter Lang Publishers)


Black Women and International Law:
Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions

edited by Jeremy I. Levitt
(Cambridge University Press)

Chained in Silence:
Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

by Talitha L. LeFlouria
(University of North Carolina Press)

The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860
by Calvin Schermerhorn
(Yale University Press)

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