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.


Black and Blur
by Fred Moten
(Duke University Press)

Diversifying Diplomacy:
My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar

by Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas with Jim Robinson
(Potomac Books)

Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
by Thomas W. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish
(Texas A&M University Press)

International Courts and the African Woman Judge:
Unveiled Narratives

edited by Josephine Jarpa Dawuni and Akua Kuenyehia
(Routledge)

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