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.


Afropean:
Notes from Black Europe

by Johny Pitts
(Allen Lane)

Football at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Texas
by Robert C. Fink
(Texas A&M University Press)

Freedom:
The Overthrow of the Slave Empires

by James Walvin
(Pegasus Books)

Race and New Modernisms
by K. Merinda Simmons and James A. Crank
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Race, Work, and Leadership:
New Perspectives on the Black Experience

edited by Laura Morgan Roberts et al.
(Harvard Business Review)

Racial Inequality in New York City Since 1965
edited by Benjamin P. Bowser and Chelli Devadutt
(State University of New York Press)

Shadow Archives:
The Lifecycles of African American Literature

by Jean-Christophe Cloutier
(Columbia University Press)

The Case of the Slave-Child, Med:
Free Soil in Antislavery Boston

by Karen Woods Weierman
(University of Massachusetts Press)

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