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:


#BlackInSchool
by Habiba Cooper Diallo
(University of Regina Press)

BLM:
The Making of a New Marxist Revolution

by Mike Gonzalez
(Encounter Books)

Chasing Me to My Grave:
An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

by Winfred Rembert
(Bloomsbury Publishing)

Dark Mirror:
African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project

by J.J. Butts
(Ohio State University Press)

Photos of People at the March on Washington August 28, 1963
by T.M. Givens and D. Dean Givens
(Pelekinesis)

Racial Trauma in the School System:
Naming the Pain

by Connesia Handford and Ariel D. Marrero
(Routledge)

The People of Rose Hill:
Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation

by Lucy Maddox
(Johns Hopkins University Press)

Time for Reparations:
A Global Perspective

edited by Jacqueline Bhabha et al.
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Unfollow Me:
Essays on Complicity

by Jill Louise Busby
(Bloomsbury Publishing)

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