Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

books-pileThe 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.


Black Male Teachers:
Diversifying the United States’ Teacher Workforce

edited by Chance W. Lewis and Ivory Toldson
(Emerald Group)

Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves:
Women Writers and French Colonial Slavery

by Doris Y. Kadish
(Liverpool University Press)

Perceiving Pain in African Literature
by Zoe Norridge
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Publishing Blackness:
Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850

edited by George Hutchinson and John K. Young
(University of Michigan Press)

The Color of Sound:
Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil

by John Burdick
(New York University Press)

To Do This, You Must Know How:
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition

by Lynn Abbot and Doug Seroff
(University Press of Mississippi)

Watching While Black:
Centering the Television of Black Audiences

edited by Beretta W. Smith-Shomade
(Rutgers University Press)

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