Journal of Black Studies
Last updated ISSN 0021-9347
Journal of Black Studies is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Black Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Race, History, and American Society
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- African cultural and philosophical studies
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- African history and culture studies
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0021-9347, 1552-4566 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,402 |
| Publishing since | 1970 |
| Journal website | jbs.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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