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:


Approximate Gestures:
Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett

by Anthony Stewart
(Louisiana State University Press)

Forms of Contention:
Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition

by Hollis Robbins
(University of Georgia Press)

Race to the Bottom:
How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics

by LaFleur Stephens-Dougan
(University of Chicago Press)

Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders:
A Clinician’s Guide

edited by Charlynn Small and Mazella Fuller
(Routledge)

Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country:
The Benton County Civil Rights Movement

by Roy DeBerry et al.
(University Press of Mississippi)

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  1. I would like to submit a book that will be of interest to African American Scholars. Is there a procedure that I have to go through for submittal? Thanks.

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