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 Mythology, Femininity, and Maternity
by Ismahan Soukeyna Diop
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Black and More than Black:
African American Fiction in the Post Era

by Cameron Leader-Picone
(University Press of Mississippi)

Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds:
A History of Slavery in New England

by Jared Ross Hardesty
(University of Massachusetts Press)

Learning from the Germans:
Race and the Memory of Evil

by Susan Neiman
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Reflective Discipline:
Reducing Racial Disparity in Referrals and Suspensions

by Martha R. Bireda
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

The Black Shoals:
Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies

by Tiffany Lethabo King
(Duke University Press)

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