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:


An Anthology of Blackness:
The State of Black Design

edited by Terresa Moses and Omari Souza
(MIT Press)

The Black Geographic:
Praxis, Resistance, Futurity

edited by Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis
(Duke University Press)
     

Black Theology and Black Faith
by Noel Leo Erskine
(Eerdmans)

Dirt Don’t Burn:
A Black Community’s Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation

by Larry Roeder and Barry Harrelson
(Georgetown University Press)
     

Literature, Art and Slavery:
Ekphrastic Visions

by Carl Plasa
(Edinburgh University Press)

Nothing More than Freedom:
The Failure of Abolition in American Law

by Giuliana Perrone
(Cambridge University Press)
     

What a Difference a Day Makes:
Women Who Conquered 1950s Music

by Steve Bergsman
(University Press of Mississippi)

Writing Centers and Racial Justice:
A Guidebook for Critical Praxis

edited by Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison and Deidre Anne Evans Garriotti
(Utah State University Press)

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