Recent Books 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.

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A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas
by Clare Cardinal-Pett
(Routledge)

Jazz Diasporas:
Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris

by Rashida K. Braggs
(University of California Press)

Lines Were Drawn:
Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School

edited by Teena F. Horn et al.
(University Press of Mississippi)

Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience
edited by Tina Fernandes Botts
(Lexington Books)

Race, Equity, and Education:
Sixty Years from Brown

edited by Pedro A. Noguera et al.
(Springer)

Speculative Blackness:
The Future of Race in Science Fiction

by Andre M. Carington
(University of Minnesota Press)

The Birth of Cool:
Style Narratives of the African Diaspora

by Carol Tulloch
(Bloomsbury Academic)

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