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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, JBHE will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections:


Dominion:
An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora

edited by Zelda Knight and Ekpeki Oghenhovwe Donald
(Aurelia Leo)

Every Watering Word
by Tanya Manning-Yarde
(Wasteland Press)

Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
edited by Lisa Yaszek and Isiah Lavender III
(Ohio State University Press)

Of Latitudes Unknown:
James Baldwin’s Radical Imagination

edited by Alice Mikal Craven et al.
(Bloomsbury Academic)

The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain
by Francesca Sobande
(Palgrave Macmillan)

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