Recent Books That May Be 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. Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.


Genetics and the Unsettled Past:
The Collision of DNA, Race, and History

edited by Keith Wailoo et al.
(Rutgers University Press)

Hemingway and the Black Renaissance
by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs
(Ohio State University Press)

Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in the Americas
edited by Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Raising African-American Males:
Strategies and Interventions for Successful Outcomes

by Theresa L. Harris and George Taylor
(R&L Education)

The Will of the People:
A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches

by Richard W. Leeman and Bernard K. Duffy
(Southern Illinois University Press)

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