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:


Derek Walcott’s Painters:
A Life with Pictures

by Maria Cristina Fumagalli
(Edinburgh University Press)

Dibia’s World:
Life on an Early Sugar Plantation

by William Jennings
(Liverpool University Press)

Ecologies of Inequity:
How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality

by Sancha Doxilly Medwinter
(University of Georgia Press)

Last of the Lions:
An African American Journey in Memoir

by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly
(Redhawk Publications)

Object Performance in the Black Atlantic
by Paulette Richards
(Routledge)

Welcome 2 Houston:
Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town

by Langton Collin Wilkins
(University of Illinois Press)

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