Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars
Filed in Books on March 3, 2016

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.


Colored Armpits:
Poems for Social Justice
by James Kityo Ssemmanda
(Archway Publishing)

Embracing Protestantism:
Black Identities in the Atlantic World
by John W. Catron
(University Press of Florida)

Mounting Frustration:
The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
by Susan E. Cahan
(Duke University Press)

The Slave’s Cause:
A History of Abolition
by Manisha Sinha
(Yale University Press)

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