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. Here are the latest selections.

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


A Mind to Stay:
White Plantation, Black Homeland

by Sydney Nathans
(Harvard University Press)

Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940
by Lorraine Elena Roses
(University of Massachusetts Press)

Granville Sharp’s Cases on Slavery
by Andrew Lyall
(Hart Publishing)

Is Science Racist?
by Jonathan Marks
(Polity)

Principles of Leadership:
The Harvey Leadership Model

by William R. Harvey
(Hampton University Press)

Racial Inequality:
A Political-Economic Analysis

by M. Reich
(Princeton University Press)

The Middle Passage:
Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade

by Herbert S. Klein
(Princeton University Press)

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