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.


Boston’s Apollo:
Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

edited by Nathaniel Silver
(Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)

Carnival Noir
by Rene Pierre
(Pelican Publishing)

Ethnicity and Gender Debates:
Cross-Readings of American Literature and Culture in the New Millennium

edited by Tatiana G. Rapatzikou and Ludmilla Martanovschi
(Peter Lang International Publishers)

Lucean Arthur Headen:
The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur

by Jill D. Snider
(University of North Carolina Press)

Road Through Midnight:
A Civil Rights Memorial

by Jessica Ingram
(University of North Carolina Press)

Working Together:
Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop

by Sarah Eckhardt
(Duke University Press)

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