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.


Black Power Encyclopedia:
From “Black is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings

edited by Karin L. Stanford et al.
(Greenwood Publishing)

Black Women’s Mental Health:
Balancing Strength and Vulnerability

edited by Stephanie Y. Evans et al.
(State University of New York Press)

Conversations With Edwidge Danticat
edited by Maxine Lavon Montgomery
(University Press of Mississippi)

Jim Crow Terminals:
The Desegregation of American Airports

by Anke Ortlepp
(University of Georgia Press)

Red and Yellow, Black and Brown:
Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

edited by Joanne L. Rondilla et al.
(Rutgers University Press)

The Man-Not:
Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

by Tommy J. Curry
(Temple University Press)

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