Recent Books 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.


African American Haiku:
Cultural Visions

edited by John Zheng
(University Press of Mississippi)

Better Git It in Your Soul:
An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus

by Krin Gabbard
(University of California Press)

Freedom, Inc. and Black Political Empowerment
by Micah W. Kubic
(University of Missouri Press)

Making Refuge:
Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine

by Catherine Besteman
(Duke University Press)

North to Bondage:
Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

by Harvey Amani Whitfield
(University of British Columbia Press)

Not Free, Not for All:
Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow

by Cheryl Knott
(University of Massachusetts Press)

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