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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.


Citizen Outsider:
Children of North African Immigrants in France

by Jean Beaman
(University of California Press)

Justice Leah Ward Sears:
Seizing Serendipity

by Rebeccca Davis
(University of Georgia Press)

Reckoning with Race:
America’s Failure

by Gene Dattel
(Encounter Books)

The Limits of Loyalty:
Ordinary People in Civil War Mississippi

by Jarret Ruminski
(University Press of Mississippi)

The Origin of Others
by Toni Morrison
(Harvard University Press)

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