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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A Black Woman’s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons About Race, Class, and Gender in America by Menah Pratt-Clarke (Peter Lang International Publishers)	A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis (Beacon Press)	Biz Mackey, a Giant Behind the Plate: The Story of the Negro League Star and Hall of Fame Catcher by Rich Westcott (Temple University Press)
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills (Amistad Press)	Black Nationalism in American History: From the Nineteenth Century to the Million Man March by Mark Newman (Edinburgh University Press)	John Adams, Slavery, and Race: Ideas, Politics, and Diplomacy in an Age of Crisis by Arthur Scherr (Praeger)
Living Racism: Through the Barrel of the Book edited by Theresa Rajack-Talley and Derrick R. Brooms (Lexington Books)	Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder (University of Georgia Press)	Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul by Stuart Cosgrove (Birlinn Ltd.)
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae (Oxford University Press)	Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier and Bill E. Lawson (Liverpool University Press)	Reconstruction: Voices from America’s First Great Struggle for Racial Equality edited by Brooks D. Simpson (Library of America)
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker (Simon & Schuster)	The Black Bruins: The Remarkable Lives of UCLA’s Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett by James W. Johnson (University of Nebraska Press)	The Black Panther Party in a City Near You edited by Judson Jeffries (University of Georgia Press)
The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966-1978: Architects of Affirmative Action by Miguel Espinoza (Rowman & Littlefield)	The Lessons of Ubuntu: How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America by Mark Mathabane (Skyhorse Publishing)	The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart (Oxford University Press)