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.


Malcolm X’s Michigan Worldview:
An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies

edited by Rita Kiki Edozie and Curtis Stokes
(Michigan State University Press)

Race and Real Estate:
Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920

by Kevin McGruder
(Columbia University Press)

Racism and the Olympics
by Robert G. Weisbord
(Transaction Publishers)

Spectacle:
The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

by Pamela Newkirk
(Amistad Press)

The Oxford Handbook of African American Language
edited by Sonja Lanehart
(Oxford University Press)

What Is Slavery?
by Brenda Stevenson
(Polity)

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