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. Here are the latest selections.
American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship by Niambi Michele Carter (Oxford Univerity Press) |
Black Man in the Huddle: Stories from the Integration of Texas Football by Robert D. Jacobus (Texas A&M University Press) |
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Theodore Canot and transcribed by Brantz Mayer (Ostara Publications) |
Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs by Colin Gordon (University of Chicago Press) |
Pickin’ Cotton on the Way to Church: The Life and Work of Father Boniface Hardin, OSB by Nancy Van Note Chism (Indiana Historical Society) |
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth by Kevin M. Levin (University of North Carolina Press) |
The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community by Matthew J. Clavin (New York University Press) |