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. 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.


Bonds of Alliance:
Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France

by Brett Rushforth
(University of North Carolina Press)

Chocolate Islands:
Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa

by Catherine Higgs
(Ohio University Press)

Imperfect Unions:
Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction

by Diana Rebekkah Paulin
(University of Minnesota Press)

Negro Building:
Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums

by Mabel O. Wilson
(University of California Press)

New Routes for Diaspora Studies
edited by Sukanya Banerjee et al.
(Indiana University Press)

Race and Ethnicity:
The Key Concepts

by Amy Ansell
(Routledge)

The African American Theatrical Body:
Reception, Performance, and the Stage

by Soyica Diggs Colbert
(Cambridge University Press)

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