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:

African American Political Thought: A Collected History edited by Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner (University of Chicago Press)	Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds by Jayna Brown (Duke University Press)	Canaan, Dim and Far: Black Reformers and the Pursuit of Citizenship in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945 by Adam Lee Cilli (University of Georgia Press)
Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Regina Bradley (University of North Carolina Press)	Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space by James Gordon Williams (University Press of Mississippi)	Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism by Deanna P. Koretsky (State University of New York Press)
Editing the Harlem Renaissance edited by Joshua M. Murray and Ross K. Tangedal (Clemson University Press)	From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry edited by Anne E. Streaty Wimberly et al. (Wesley’s Foundery Books)	Not Your Mother’s Mammy: The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women’s Media by Tracey L. Walters (Rutgers University Press)
Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900-1965 by Justin Mellette (University Press of Mississippi)	Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education edited by Bianca C. Williams et al. (State University of New York Press)	Reconstruction Politics in a Deep South State: Alabama, 1865–1874 by William Warren Rogers Jr. (University of Alabama Press)
The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 by K. Stephen Prince (University of North Carolina Press)	The History of the Civil Rights Movement: The Story of the African American Fight for Justice and Equality edited by Dan Peel (Sona Books)	The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses edited by Jordana Moore Saggese (University of California Press)
The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers edited by Adekeye Adebajo (Manchester University Press)	Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism by Samantha A. Noel (Duke University Press)	White Bred: Hillbillies, White Trash, and Rednecks Against White Supremacy by Eric Kerl (Haymarket Books)