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:

Beacons of Liberty: International Free Soil and the Fight for Racial Justice in Antebellum America by Elena K. Abbott (Cambridge University Press)	Black Identity Viewed From a Barber’s Chair: Nigrescence and Eudaimonia by William E. Cross Jr. (Temple University Press)	Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930 by Anthony W. Wood (University of Nebraska Press)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women by Inger Burnett-Zeigler (Amistad)	Nonviolence Before King: The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle by Anthony C. Siracusa (University of North Carolina Press)	Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art: The Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis by Naurice Frank Woods Jr. (University Press of Mississippi)
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America by Karen Cook Bell (Cambridge University Press)	The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South by Eli Farber (University of South Carolina Press)	The Fire That Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation edited by Nalini Mohabir and Ronald Cummings (Black Rose Books)
The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka by Aldon Lynn Nielsen (Palgrave Macmillan)	Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color by Anissa Janine Wardi (University Press of Mississippi)	Toward an African Future ― Of the Limit of World by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (State University of New York Press)