Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

November 21, 2018

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.

All Things Being Equal by Hank Willis Thomas (Aperture)	An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (University of Georgia Press)	Becoming by Michelle Obama (Crown Publishing)
Black and White Bioscope: Making Movies in Africa 1899 to 1925 by Neil Parsons (Intellect Limited)	Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011: She Bites Back by Kendra R. Parker (Lexington Books)	Creating the Jazz Solo: Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony by Vic Hobson (University Press of Mississippi)
Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833-1880 by Rebecca Swartz (Cambridge University Press)	Examining Student Retention and Engagement Strategies at Historically Black Colleges and Universities edited by Samuel L. Hinton and Antwon D. Woods (Information Science Reference)	Julian Abele: Architect and the Beaux Arts by Dreck Spurlock Wilson (Routledge)
Just Trying to Have School: The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi by Natalie G. Adams and James H. Adams (University Press of Mississippi)	Liberalism Is Not Enough: Race and Poverty in Postwar Political Thought by Robin Marie Averbeck (University of North Carolina Press)	Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left by Mark A. Lause (Pluto Press)
Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Shaping of Global Black Consciousness edited by David Austin (Pluto Press)	New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition edited by Keisha N. Blain et al. (Northwestern University Press)	Overcoming Challenges and Creating Opportunity for African American Male Students edited by Jennifer T. Butcher et al. (IGI Global)
Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD by Max Felker-Kantor (University of North Carolina Press)	Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today by Denise Murrell (Yale University Press)	Race, Gender, and Image Repair Theory: How Digital Media Change the Landscape by Mia Moody-Ramirez and Hazel James Cole (Lexington Books)
Reclaiming the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American History in the 21st Century by Pero G. Dagbovie (Verso)	Stone Free: Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966–June 1967 by Jas Obrecht (University of North Carolina Press)	Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground by Kinohi Nishikawa (University of Chicago Press)
The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence edited by Remi Joseph-Salisbury et al. (Zed Books)	The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology edited by Ira E. Harrison et al. (University of Illinois Press)	Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics by David Lloyd (Fordham University Press)