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.


Medicalizing Blackness:
Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

by Rana A. Hogarth
(University of North Carolina Press)

Radical Intellect:
Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s

by Christopher M. Tinson
(University of North Carolina Press)

The Promise of Patriarchy:
Women and the Nation of Islam

by Ula Yvette Taylor
(University of North Carolina Press)

Untimely Democracy:
The Politics of Progress After Slavery

by Gregory Laski
(Oxford University Press)

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