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.


American Dream Deferred:
Black Federal Workers in Washington, D.C., 1941-1981

by Frederick W. Gooding Jr.
(University of Pittsburgh Press)

Black Women Filmmakers and Black Love on Screen
by Brandale N. Mills
(Routledge)

Colorbind Racism
by Meghan Burke
(Polity)

Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846:
Living an Antislavery Life

by Alasdair Pettinger
(Edinburgh University Press)

Inequality, Crime, and Health Among African American Male
edited by Marino A. Bruce and Darnell F. Hawkins
(Emerald Publishing Group)

Remembering Our Black Trailblazers and Their Legacies II
by Barbara A. Pierce
(Okir Publishing)

The Struggle Is Eternal:
Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation

by Joseph R. Fitzgerald
(University Press of Kentucky)

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