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.


A Shared Future:
Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy

by Richard L. Wood and Brad R. Fulton
(University of Chicago Press)

Black Participatory Research:
Power, Identity, and the Struggle for Justice in Education

edited by Elizabeth R. Drame and Decoteau J. Irby
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America
by Jerome C. Branche
(Vanderbilt University Press)

Not Free, Not for All:
Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow

by Cheryl Knott
(University of Massachusetts Press)

Race, Religion, and Resilience in the Neoliberal Age
by Cedric C. Johnson
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Reconstruction:
A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

edited by Richard Zuczek
(Greenwood Publishing)

Schoolhouse Activists:
African American Educators and the Long Birmingham Civil Rights Movement

by Tondra L. Loder-Jackson
(State University of New York Press)

Stigma and Culture:
Last-Place Anxiety in Black America

by J. Lorand Matory
(University of Chicago Press)


The Black Church Studies Reader
edited by Carol B. Duncan and Alton B. Pollard
(Palgrave Macmillan)


Trends in African Studies
by Jacob U. Gordon and Stephen Owoahene-Acheampong
(Nova Science Publishers)

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