Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

January 9, 2020

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.

A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood by Eithne Quinn (Columbia University Press)	Anti-Blackness and Public Schools in the Border South: Policy, Politics, and Protest in St. Louis, 1865-1972 by Claude Weathersby and Matthew D. Davis (Information Age Publishing)	Black Americans in Higher Education: Africana Studies: A Review of Social Science Research, Volume 8 edited by James L. Conyers Jr. (Routledge)
Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present edited by Sherrow O. Pinder (Cambridge University Press)	Bodies That Work: African American Women’s Corporeal Activism in Progressive America by Tami Miyatsu (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)	Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics by Zoltan L. Hajnal (Cambridge University Press)
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America by Kabria Baumgartner (New York University Press)	Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era by Alison Rose Jefferson (Bison Books)	On the Shoulders of Giants: Celebrating African American Authors of Young Adult Literature edited by Steven T. Bickmore and Shanetia R. Clark (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Queen Mothers: Articulating the Spirit of Black Women Teacher-Leaders by Rhonda Jeffries (Information Age Publishing)	Shape Shifters: Journeys Across Terrains of Race and Identity edited by Lilly Anne Y. Welty Tamai et al. (University of Nebraska Press)	Voices of African Immigrants in Kentucky: Migration, Identity, and Transnationality by Francis Musoni (University Press of Kentucky)