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.


A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories
by Bettye Collier-Thomas
(Beacon Press)

African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era
by Jeannette E. Brown
(Oxford University Press)

Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies:
A Critical Anthology

edited by Cassander L. Smith et al.
(Palgrave Macmillan)

On Fire in Baltimore:
Black Mormon Women and Conversion in a Raging City

by Laura Rutter Strickling
(Greg Kofford Books)

Rethinking Black German Studies:
Approaches, Interventions and Histories

edited by Tiffany Florvil and Vanessa Plumly
(Peter Lang International)

The Blues Muse:
Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry

by Emily Ruth Rutter
(University of Alabama Press)

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