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.

Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.


Harry T. Burleigh:
From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance

by Jean E. Snyder
(University of Illinois Press)

Painting the Gospel:
Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago

by Kymberly N. Pinder
(University of Illinois Press)
Race and Secularism in America
edited by Jonathan S. Kahn and Vincent W. Lloyd
(Columbia University Press)

Real Love, No Drama:
The Music of Mary J. Blige

by Danny Alexander
(University of Texas Press)

Speculative Blackness:
The Future of Race in Science Fiction

by Andre M. Carrington
(University of Minnesota Press)


The African Imagination in Music
by Kofi Agawu
(Oxford University Press)

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