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.


Afrofuturism Rising:
The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

by Isiah Lavender III
(Ohio State University Press)

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat
edited by Celucien L. Joseph et al.
(Routledge)

Branches of Asanteism
by Abdul Karim Bangura
(Lexington Books)

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon
by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoue
(University of Michigan Press)

Reclaiming the Great World House:
The Global Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.

edited by Vicki L. Crawford and Lewis V. Baldwin
(University of Georgia Press)

Shuttered Schools:
Race, Community, and School Closures in American Cities

edited by Ebony M. Duncan-Shippy
(Information Age Publishing)

Survival Math
by Mitchell S. Jackson
(Dialogue Books)

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