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.


A Black Women’s History of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
(Beacon Press)

Black Imagination:
Black Voices on Black Futures

edited by Natasha Marin
(McSweeney’s Publishing)

Coming Full Circle:
From Jim Crow to Journalism

by Wanda Smalls Lloyd
(NewSouth Books)

The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America
by Robert H. Churchill
(Cambridge University Press)

Veil and Vow:
Marriage Matter in Contemporary African American Culture

by Aneeka Ayanna Henderson
(University of North Carolina Press)

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