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.


The Anger Rule:
Racial Inequality and Constraints on Black Politicians

by Antoine J. Banks and Ismail K. White
(Cambridge University Press)

Abolition Time:
Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice

by Jess A. Goldberg
(University of Minnesota Press)

Black Women Legacies:
Public History Sites Seen and Unseen

by Alexandra Russell
(University of Illinois Press)

Captive City:
Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South

by Jennie Lightweis-Goff
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Imagining Black Diasporas:
21st-Century Art and Poetics

edited by Dhyndra Lawson
(DelMonico Books)

Jazz Radio America

by Aaron J. Johnson
(University of Illinois Press)

Race Traffic:
Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819

by Gunther Peck (University of North Carolina Press)

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