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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.


Against a Sharp White Background:
Infrastructures of African American Print

edited by Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne
(University of Wisconsin Press)

Black Huntington:
An Appalachian Story

by Cicero M. Fain III
(University of Illinois Press)

Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement
by Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Slavery’s Descendants:
Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation

edited by Dionne Ford and Jill Strauss
(Rutgers University Press)

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