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.


An Architecture of Education:
African American Women Design the New South

by Angel David Nieves
(University of Rochester Press)

Charles White:
A Retrospective

edited by Sarah Kelly Oehler et al.
(Art Institute of Chicago)

Old In Art School:
A Memoir of Starting Over

by Nell Painter
(Counterpoint)

The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés:
Decolonialism, Class, Gender, Race

by Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia
(Rowman & Littlefield International)

To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down:
Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881-1987

by Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell
(University of Alabama Press)

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