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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.


A History of the African American Novel
by Valerie Babb (Cambridge University Press)

Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art
edited by James Romaine and Phoebe Wolfskill
(Pennsylvania State University Press)

Black Boys Burning:
The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School

by Grif Stockley
(University Press of Mississippi)

Intersectionality and Ethnic Entrepreneurship
edited by Zulema Valdez and Mary Romero
(Routledge)

The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans
by Almeda Wright
(Oxford University Press)

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