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:


Being Property Once Myself:
Blackness and the End of Man

by Joshua Bennett
(Harvard Univerity Press)

Officer Clemmons:
A Memoir

by Francois Clemens
(Catapult)

Son of Prince Edward County
by Twitty J. Styles
(Dorrance Publishing)

The History and Growth of Career and Technical Education in America, Fifth Edition
by Howard R.D. Gordon and Deanna Schultz
(Waveland Press)

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