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:


Abigail Field Mott’s
The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano:
A Scholarly Edition

edited by Eric D. Lamore
(West Virginia University Press)

Annotations:
On the Early Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois

by Nahum Dimitri
(Duke University Press)

Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape
by Lisa M. Anderson
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Brothers:
A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race

by Nico Slate
(Temple University Press)

Desegregating Comics:
Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

edited by Qiana Whitted
(Rutgers University Press)

Illmatic Consequences:
The Clapback to Opponents of Critical Race Theory

edited by Walter Greason and Danian Darell Jerry
(Universal Write Publications)

Pathologizing Black Bodies
by Constante Gonzalez Groba at El.
(Routledge)

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