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.
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Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State by Megan Ming Francis (Cambridge University Press) |
Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicago’s Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington by Jeffrey Helgeson (University of Chicago Press) |
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I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era by David Williams (Cambridge University Press) |
The Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet, 1754-1783: An Annotated Critical Edition edited by David L. Crosby (Louisiana State University Press) |
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne (New York University Press) |