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.


Africa in Stereo:
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity

by Tsitsi Ella Jaji
(Oxford University Press)

Black Power in the Caribbean
by Kate Quinn
(University Press of Florida)

Concordance:
Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama

by Katherine Tate
(University of Michigan Press)

Heart-Sick:
The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease

by Janet K. Shim
(New York University Press)

San Francisco Lithographer:
African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown

by Robert J. Chandler
(University of Oklahoma Press)

The Black Body in Ecstasy:
Reading Race, Reading Pornography

by Jennifer Nash
(Duke University Press)

The Long, Hot Summer of 1967:
Urban Rebellion in America

by Malcolm McLaughlin
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance:
Claiming a Seat at the Table

edited by Sonja M. Brown Givens and Keisha Edwards Tassie
(Lexington Books)

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