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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:


Contraband Guides:
Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era
by Paul H.D. Kaplan
(Pennsylvania State University Press)

Living Jim Crow
by Gavan Lennon
(Edinburgh University Press)

Tacit Racism
by Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck
(University of Chicago Press)

Twisted:
The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
by Emma Dabiri
(Harper Perennial)

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