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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Africa, Empire and Fleet Street: Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine by Jonathan Derrick (Oxford University Press)	Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk (Duke University Press)	Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West edited by Herbert G. Ruffin II and Dwayne A. Mack (University of Oklahoma Press)
Lincoln and the Abolitionists by Stanley Harrod (Southern Illinois University Press)	Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change by Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blain (University of Pennsylvania Press)
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean by Gerald Horne (Monthly Review Press)	The Diplomacy of Decolonisation: America, Britain and the United Nations During the Congo Crisis 1960-64 by Alanna O’Malley (Manchester University Press)	The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson by Steven Loza (University Press of Mississippi)
The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities by Edward G. Goetz (Cornell University Press)	The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era by Christopher W. Schmidt (University of Chicago Press)	Two Charlestonians at War: The Civil War Odysseys of a Lowcountry Aristocrat and a Black Abolitionist by Barbara L. Bellows (Louisiana State University Press)