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.


Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime
by Shaun L. Gabbidon
(Routledge)

Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South
by Paul E. Teed and Melissa Ladd Teed
(Greenwood)

Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States
by Travis M. Foster
(Oxford University Press)

Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination
edited by Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal
(University of Washington Press)

Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America
by Jordan J. Dominy
(University Press of Mississippi)

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