Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

books-pileThe 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.

Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.


Breaking Ground:
My Life in Medicine

by Louis W. Sullivan with David Chanoff
(University of Georgia Press)

Gendered Resistance:
Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner

edited by Mary E. Frederickson and Delores M. Walters
(University of Illinois Press)

River of Hope:
Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865–1954

by Elizabeth Gritter
(University Press of Kentucky)

The Great White Way:
Race and the Broadway Musical

by Warren Hoffman
(Rutgers University Press)

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  1. /Please include our book so readers can know about these resilient women of the Great Migration: The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families of the Jim Crow South (LSU Press, 2012). by Katherine van Wormer, David Jackson III, and Charletta Sudduth.

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