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.

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Black Bodies, Black Rights:
The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil

by Elizabeth Farfan-Santos
(University of Texas Press)

Black Gods of the Asphalt:
Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball

by Onaje X.O. Woodbine
(Columbia University Press)

Black is Beautiful:
A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics

by Paul C. Taylor
(Wiley-Blackwell)

The African Diaspora Population in Britain:
Migrant Identities and Experiences

by Peter J. Aspinall and Martha Judith Chinouya
(Palgrave Macmillan)

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity
edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young
(Oxford University Press)

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