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 Artists in America:
From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial

by Celeste-Marie Bernier et al.
(Yale University Press)

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects

by Daphne Lamothe
(University of North Carolina Press)
     

Emergent Quilombos:
Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil

by Bryce Henson
(University of Texas Press)

Ernest Cole:
The True America

by Ernest Cole
(Aperture)
     
     

Injustice in Focus:
The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams

by Cecil Williams and Claudia Smith Brinson
(University of South Carolina Press)

The Myth of Black Capitalism

by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
(Monthly Review Press)

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