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.


Africa:
An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society

edited by Toyin Falola and Daniel Jean-Jacques
(ABC-CLIO)

DisCrit:
Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education

edited by David J. Connor et al.
(Teachers College Press)

Landscapes of Exclusion:
State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South

by William O’Brien
(University of Massachusetts Press)

Minority Voting in the United States
edited by Kyle L. Kreider and Thomas J. Baldino
(Praeger)

Our Gang:
A Racial History of The Little Rascals

by Julia Lee
(University of Minnesota Press)

The Healing Power of Hip Hop
by Raphael Travis Jr.
(Praeger)

The Sound of Culture:
Diaspora and Black Technopoetics

by Louis Chude-Sokei
(Wesleyan University Press)

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