Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

March 4, 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.

Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties by Lisa M. Corrigan (University Press of Mississippi)	Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by Andre Brock Jr. (New York University Press)	Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America by E. James West (University of Illinois Press)
Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall (Viking Books)	Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club by Terry Williams (Columbia University Press)	Racial Stasis: The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics by Christopher D. DeSante and Candis Watts Smith (University of Chicago Press)
Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal by Kate Dossett (University of North Carolina Press)	Scarlet and Black, Volume Two: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945 edited by Kendra Boyd et al. (Rutgers University Press)	Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior by Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird (Princeton University Press)
The Politics of Translating Sound Motifs in African Fiction by Laurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo (John Benjamins Publishing)	There Was a Time: James Brown, The Chitlin’ Circuit, and Me by Alan Leeds (Post Hill Press)	To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America by Felicia Angeja Viator (Harvard University Press)