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.


On Freedom and the Will to Adorn:
The Art of the African American Essay

by Cheryl A. Wall
(University of North Carolina Press)

Stick to the Skin:
African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015

by Celeste-Marie Bernier
(University of California Press)

The College Completion Glass — Half-full or Half-Empty
by Tiffany Beth Mfume
(Rowman & Littlefield)

Unsung Legacies of Educators and Events in African American Education
by Andrea D. Lewis and Nicole A. Taylor
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Workers on Arrival:
Black Labor in the Making of America

by Joe William Trotter Jr.
(University of California Press)

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