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:


Black Women Writers at Work
by Claudia Tate
(Haymarket Books)

Cross-Border Cosmopolitans:
The Making of a Pan-African North America

by Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
(University of North Carolina Press)

Deadpan:
The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression

by Tina Post
(New York University Press)

My Soul Is a Witness:
The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching

by Mari N. Crabtree
(Yale University Press)


Reading Pleasures:
Everyday Black Living in Early America

by Tara A. Bynum
(University of Illinois Press)

Samuel Ringgold Ward:
A Life of Struggle

by R.J.M. Blackett
(Yale University Press)

Shirley Chisholm:
Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

by Anastasia C. Curwood
(University of North Carolina Press)

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