Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

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.

Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.


African American Males in Higher Education Leadership:
Challenges and Opportunities

edited by Patricia A. Mitchell
(Peter Lang International)

Down the Up Staircase:
Three Generations of a Harlem Family

by Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch
(Columbia University Press)

Mainstreaming Black Power
by Tom Adam Davies
(University of California Press)

The Death of Denmark Vesey
by James Paul Rice
(Knox Robinson Publishing)

The Key to the Door:
Experiences of Early African American Students at the University of Virginia

edited by Maurice Apprey and Shelli M. Poe
(University of Virginia Press)

Two Weeks Every Summer:
Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America

by Tobin Miller Shearer
(Cornell University Press)

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