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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A Long Dark Night: Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II by J. Michael Martinez (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) |
Abolitionizing Missouri: German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America by Kristen Layne Anderson (Louisiana State University Press) |
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods edited by Alice Bellagamba et al. (Cambridge University Press) |
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Mitchell Duneier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
Jackie Robinson in Quotes: The Remarkable Life of Baseball’s Most Significant Player by Danny Peary (Page Street Publishing) |
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Redressing Everyday Discrimination: The Weakness and Potential of Anti-Discrimination Law by Karla Perez Portilla (Routledge) |
Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality Since 1700 by Peter H. Lindeert and Jeffrey G. Williamson (Princeton University Press) |