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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.


Devils Walking:
Klan Murders Along the Mississippi in the 1960s

by Stanley Nelson
(Louisiana State University Press)

Dream a World Anew:
The African American Experience and the Shaping of America

edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill
(Smithsonian Books)

Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity
edited by Jas M. Sullivan and William E. Cross
(State University of New York Press)

New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South
by Claudrena Harold
(University of Georgia Press)

Reverend Addie Wyatt:
Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality

by Marcia Walker-McWilliams
(University of Illinois Press)

Scandalize My Name:
Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life

by Terrion L. Williamson
(Fordham University Press)

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