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.

Here are the latest selections.


Africamericanos
by Abraham Nahon et al.
(RM/Museo Amparo/Centro de la Imagen)

Black Metaphors:
How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking

by Cord J. Whitaker
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Perspectives on Black Histories in Schools
by Lagarrett J. King
(Information Age Publishing)

Public Secrets:
Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica

by Henrice Altink
(Liverpool University Press)

Race and Ethnicity in America:
From Pre-Contact to the Present

edited by Russell M. Lawson and Benjamin A. Lawson
(Greenwood)

Roaring Back:
The Fall and Rise of Tiger Woods

by Curt Sampson
(Diversion Books)

Runaway Genres:
The Global Afterlives of Slavery

by Yogita Goyal
(New York University Press)

The New Noir:
Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia

by Orly Clerge
(University of California Press)

Time Is Tight:
My Life, Note by Note

by Booker T. Jones
(Little, Brown & Co.)
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