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.


A Philosophy of Struggle:
The Leonard Harris Reader

edited by Lee A. McBride III
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Changing Academia Forever:
Black Students Analyze the Movement They Led

by Kitty Kelly Epstein and Bernard Stringer
(Myers Education Press)

Contraband Guides:
Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era

by Paul H.D. Kaplan
(Pennsylvania State University Press)

Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature
by Timothy Helwig
(University of Massachusetts Press)

Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion
by Celucien L. Joseph
(Pickwick Publications)

The Short Stories of Frank Yerby
edited by Veronica T. Wilson
(University Press of Mississippi)

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