Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

The 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.


Afro-Atlantic Flight:
Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic

by Michelle D. Commander (Duke University Press)

Black Rights/White Wrongs:
The Critique of Racial Liberalism

by Charles W. Mills
(Oxford University Press)

In Full Color:
Finding My Place in a Black and White World

by Rachel Dolezal with Storms Reback
(BenBella Press)

Migrating the Black Body:
The African Diaspora and Visual Culture

edited by Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Harnandez
(University of Washington Press)

Through Darkness to Light:
Photographs Along the Underground Railroad

by Jeanine Michna-Bales
(Princeton Architectural Press)

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