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.


Intersectionality & Higher Education:
Research, Theory, & Praxis

edited by Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr.
(Peter Lang International Publishers)

Race Dialogues:
A Facilitator’s Guide to Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom

by Donna Rich Kaplowitz et al.
(Teachers College Press)

Repair:
Redeeming the Promise of Abolition

by Katherine Franke
(Haymarket Books)

The Black Kingdom of the Nile
by Charles Bonnet
(Harvard University Press)

The Dark Fantastic:
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
(New York University Press)

The Rumble in the Jungle:
Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global Stage

by Lewis A. Erenberg
(University of Chicago Press)

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