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:


Africana Health Psychology:
A Cultural Perspective

by Marilyn D. Lovett
(Lexington Books)

Called to the Camera:
Black American Studio Photographers

by Brian Piper et al.
(New Orleans Museum of Art)

Doing Black Digital Humanities With Radical Intentionality
by Catherine Knight Steele et al.
(Routledge)

Gentleman of Jazz:
A Life in Music

by Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cone
(Blackstone Publishing)

Liturgy of Change:
Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting

by Elizabeth Ellis Miller
(University of South Carolina Press)

Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope:
New Essays on the Work of Cornel West

edited by Barbara Will
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers:
Black Artists From the American South

by Maxwell L. Anderson et al.
(Royal Academy of Arts)

Studying African-Native Americans
edited by Robert Keith Collins
(Routledge)

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