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.


African Americans in Central Texas History:
From Slavery to Civil Rights

edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles
(Texas A&M University Press)

Force and Freedom:
Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

by Kellie Carter Jackson
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Hate Crime Hoax:
How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War
by Wilfred Reilly
(Regnery Publishing)

Integration Now:
Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education
by William P. Hustwit
(University of North Carolina Press)

Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932
by Lyneise E. Williams
(Bloomsbury)

Relational Formations of Race:
Theory, Method, and Practice

edited by Natalia Molina
(University of California Press)

They Stole Him Out of Jail:
Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim

by William B. Gravely
(University of South Carolina Press)

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