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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, JBHE will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections:

A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial by Steven P. Garabedian (University of Massachusetts Press)	Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll by Maureen Mahon (Duke University Press)	Black Love Matters: Authentic Men’s Voices on Marriages and Romantic Relationships by Armon R. Perry (Lexington Books)
Calculating Race: Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment by Benjamin Wiggins (Oxford University Press)	Dialectical Perspectives on Media, Health, and Culture in Modern Africa edited by Alfred O. Akwala et al. (IGI Global)	Going There: Black Visual Satire by Richard J. Powell (Yale University Press)
From Marion to Montgomery: The Early Years of Alabama State University, 1867-1925 by Joseph D. Caver (New South Books)	Gullah Tears: The Enslaved Souls of Charleston by Josie Olsvig (Koehler Books)	Hear My Train a Comin’: The Songs of Jimi Hendrix by Kevin Le Gendre (Equinox Publishing)
Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism by Joe William Trotter Jr. (University Press of Kentucky)	Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America by Brigitte Fielder (Duke University Press)	Roots of Division: Uncovering What Lies Beneath America’s Racial Divide by Curtis Chesney (Rooted Press)
Sounds from the Other Side: Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music by Elliott H. Powell (University of Minnesota Press)	The Ties That Bind: Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1866 by J.R. Oldfield (Liverpool University Press)	Ubuntu: George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents by Sheila D. Collins (Ohio University Press)