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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, JBHE will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections:


Carrie Mae Weems
edited by Sarah Lewis
(MIT Press)

Du Bois:
A Critical Introduction

by Reiland Rabaka
(Polity)

Faulkner and Slavery
edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas Jr.
(University Press of Mississippi)

Heritage and Hate:
Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities

by Stephen M. Monroe
(University of Alabama Press)

Justice Deferred:
Race and the Supreme Court

by Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner
(Harvard University Press)

Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction
by Hannah Lauren Murray
(Edinburgh University Press)

Rough Tactics:
Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932

by Mark A. Johnson
(University Press of Mississippi)

The Second:
Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

by Carol Anderson
(Bloomsbury Publishing)

The Victory of Greenwood
by Carlos A. Moreno
(Jenkin Lloyd-Jones Press)

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