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.
Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal by Shennette Garrett-Scott (Columbia University Press) |
Conviction: The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall’s Fight for Civil Rights by Denver Nicks and John Nicks (Lawrence Hill Books) |
Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life by Jennifer Jensen Wallach (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) |
Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900–1959 edited by Kelisha B. Graves (University of Notre Dame Press) |
Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women’s Discourses of the Female Body by Ayo A. Coly (University of Nebraska Press) |
Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman’s Firsthand Account of World War II by Philip Handleman (Regnery History) |