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. As an Amazon Associate, JBHE will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections.

Accused! The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment by Larry Dane Brimmer (Calkins Creek)	Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh by Candice M. Jenkins (University of Minnesota Press)	Citizen Outlaw: One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper by Charles Barber (Ecco)
Ground Crew: The Fight to End Segregation at Georgia State by Maurice C. Daniels (University of Georgia Press)	Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe (Algonquin Books)	Parkchester: A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity by Jeffrey S. Gurock (New York University Press)
Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society edited by Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan (Palgrave Macmillan)	Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams (W.W. Norton)	Sustainability, Emerging Technologies, and Pan-Africanism by Thierno Tiam and Gilbert Rochon (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual by Lavelle Porter (Northwestern University Press)	Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition by Sarah Thomas (Paul Mellon Centre)	Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory by Robert E. May (University of Virginia Press)