Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars
Filed in Books on February 13, 2020
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) |
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  Different Strokes: Serena, Venus, and the Unfinished Black Tennis Revolution by Cecil Harris (University of Nebraska Press) |
  Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher (Atria Books) |
  Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement by Steve Suitts (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) |
