Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

January 23, 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.

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana by Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross (Cambridge University Press)	Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners by Lynn M. Thomas (Duke University Press)	Campus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students’ Search for Community at Historically White Universities by Micere Keels (Cornell University Press)
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership by Ed Gordon (Hachette Books)	Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation by Anna Mae Duane (New York University Press)	Losing Power: African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics by Sekou M. Franklin and Ray Block Jr. (University of Georgia Press)
Pushing Back: Women of Color–Led Grassroots Activism in New York City by Ariella Rotramel (University of Georgia Press)	Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown (Belknap Press)	The Great Migration of Black Women Educators From Segregation to Integration by Obiora Anekwe (Xlibris Us)
The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature by Anne Margaret Castro (University of Virginia Press)	Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State by Garrett Felber (University of North Carolina Press)	We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America by Robert T. Chase (University of North Carolina Press)