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.


Afropessimism
by Frank Wilderson III
(Liveright)

Bodies That Work:
African American Women’s Corporeal Activism in Progressive America

by Tami Miyatsu
(Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)

Making School Integration Work:
Lessons from Morris

by Paul Tractenberg et al.
(Teachers College Press)

Queen of the Negro Leagues:
Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles

by James Overmyer
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Selling Antislavery:
Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America

by Teresa A. Goddu
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power
by Jared A. Ball
(Palgrave Pivot)

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