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.

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Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child by Jawanza Eric Clark (Palgrave Macmillan)	Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform by Tommie Shelby (Harvard University Press)	Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration by Flores A. Forbes (Skyhorse Publishing)
Mama’s Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression by Marlo D. David (Ohio State University Press)	Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families by Lori L. Tharps (Beacon Press)	Sweet Freedom’s Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869 by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore (University of Oklahoma Press)