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.


Among Others:
Blackness at MoMA

edited by Darby English and Charlotte Barat
(Museum of Modern Art)

Fugitivism:
Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820-1860

by S. Charles Bolton
(University of Arkansas Press)

In This Land of Plenty:
Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics

by Benjamin Talton
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham:
Dances in Literature and Cinema

by Hannah Durkin
(University of Illinois Press)

Remaking a Life:
How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

by Celeste Watkins-Hayes
(University of California Press)

The Aliites:
Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali

by Spencer Dew
(University of Chicago Press)

The Stories We Tell:
Math, Race, Bias, and Opportunity

by Valerie M. Faulkner et al.
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

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