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.


Barracoon:
The Story of the Last Black Cargo

by Zora Neale Hurston (Amistad Press)

Black/Africana Communication Theory
edited by Kehbuma Langmia
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Empowering Men of Color on Campus:
Building Student Community in Higher Education

by Derrick R. Brooms et al.
(Rutgers University Press)

Liberia, South Carolina:
An African American Appalachian Community

by John M. Coggeshall
(University of North Carolina Press)

Moving Toward Integration:
The Past and Future of Fair Housing

by Richard H. Sander et al. (Harvard University Press)

The Color Line and the Assembly Line:
Managing Race in the Ford Empire

by Elizabeth Esch
(University of California Press)

The Frederick Douglass Papers:
Series Three:
Correspondence, Volume 2:
1853-1865

edited by John R. Kaufman-McKivigan (Yale University Press)

Truth Without Tears:
African American Women Deans Share Lessons in Leadership

by Carolyn R. Hodges and Olga M. Welch
(Harvard Education Press)

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