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 Companion to African Cinema
edited by Kenneth W. Harrow and Carmela Garritano
(Wiley-Blackwell)

African Impressions:
Tribal Arts and Currents of Life

by Bettina von Lintig
(5Continents)

African Traditional Oral Literature and Visual Cultures as Pedagogical Tools in Diverse Classroom Contexts
edited by Lewis Asimeng-Boahene and Michael Baffoe
(Information Age Publishing)

Every Nation Has Its Dish:
Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America

by Jennifer Jensen Wallach
(University of North Carolina Press)

Modern African American Poets:
From Hughes to Parker

by Yasser K.R. Aman
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

Rod Bush:
Lessons from a Radical Black Scholar on Liberation, Love, and Justice

edited by Melanie E.L. Bush
(Ahead Publishing House)

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