Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

The Jbooks-pileournal 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.


African American War Heroes
by James Brent Martin
(ABC-CLIO)

Before the Windrush:
Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool

by John Belchem
(Liverpool University Press)

Beyond Banneker:
Black Mathematicians and the Paths to Excellence

by Erica N. Walker
(State University of New York Press)

Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln
by Jonathan W. White
(Louisiana State University Press)

Good White People:
The Problem With Middle-Class White Anti-Racism

by Shannon Sullivan
(State University of New York Press)

Lifting My Voice:
A Memoir

by Barbara Hendricks
(Chicago Review Press)

Notes from a Colored Girl:
The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis

by Karsonya Wise Whitehead
(University of South Carolina Press)

On Africa’s Lands:
The Forgotten Stories of Two Lincoln Educated Missionaries in Liberia

edited by Cheryl Renee Gooch
(Lincoln University Press)

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