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.


Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South
by Marie S. Molloy
(University of South Carolina Press)

We’re Standing By
by Al Allen
(Atkins & Greenspan Publishing)

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