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.


Breach of Peace:
Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders

by Eric Etheridge
(Vanderbilt University Press)

Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America
edited by Damian Alan Pargas
(University Press of Florida)

Rethinking Racial Justice
by Andrew Valls
(Oxford University Press)

Technicolored:
Reflections on Race in the Time of TV

by Ann duCille
(Duke University Press)

We Shall Overcome:
Press Photographs of Nashville During the Civil Rights Era

edited by Kathryn E. Delmez
(Vanderbilt-Fritz Art Museum)

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