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.com.


Distinct Identities:
Minority Women in U.S. Politics

edited by Nadia E. Brown and Sarah Allen Gershon
(Routledge)

Gospel Music:
The Sound of Hope

by Eddie W. Jones
(Redemption Press)

Power Interrupted:
Antiracist and Feminist Activism Inside the United Nations

by Sylvanna M. Falcon
(University of Washington Press)

Progressive Racism
by David Horowitz
(Encounter Books)

Unfreedom:
Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston

by Jared Ross Hardesty
(New York University Press)

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