The 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.
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Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus by Krin Gabbard (University of California Press) |
Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community From the Founding of “The Town of George” in 1751 to the Present Day by Kathleen Lesko et al. (Georgetown University Press) |
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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) |
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Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow by Cheryl Knott (University of Massachusetts Press) |
Reaching the Mountaintop of the Academy: Personal Narratives, Advice and Strategies From Black Distinguished and Endowed Professors edited by Gail L. Thompson et al. (Information Age Publishing) |
We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination by Russell Rickford (Oxford University Press) |