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 Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)	Black Families and Recession in the United States: The Enduring Impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 by Dorothy Smith-Ruiz and Albert M. Kopak (Routledge)	Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship With the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players by Cam Perron with Nick Chiles (Gallery Books)
Excavating Exodus: Biblical Typology and Racial Solidarity in African American Literature by J. Lawrence Cohen (Clemson University Press)	Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery by Peter Wirzbicki (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865 by Nik Ribianszky (University of Georgia Press)
More Than Our Pain: Affect and Emotion in the Era of Black Lives Matter edited by Beth Hinderliter and Steve Peraza (State University of New York Press)	Revealing Britain’s Systemic Racism: The Case of Meghan Markle and the Royal Family by Kimberly Ducey and Joe Feagin (Routledge)	Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians edited by Christopher R. Lawton et al. (University of Georgia Press)
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State by Kenneth C. Barnes (University of Arkansas Press)	Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? Essays by Jesse McCarthy (Liveright)	William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia by William C. Kashatus (University of Notre Dame Press)