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.com.


Conceptual Aphasia in Black:
Displacing Racial Formation

edited by P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods
(Lexington Books)

Laying Claim:
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity

by Patricia G. Davis
(University of Alabama Press)

The Boy Who Runs:
The Odyssey of Julius Achon

by John Brant
(Ballantine Books)

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