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:

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James (Grand Central Publishing)	An American Color: Race and Identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic World by Andre N. Wegmann (University of Georgia Press)	Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela K. Davis (Haymarket Books)
Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community From the Founding of “The Town of George” in 1751 to the Present Day by Kathleen Menzie Lesko et al. (Georgetown University Press)	Black Space: Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower by Sherry L. Deckman (Rutgers University Press)	Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God by Shayne Lee (Lexington Books)
Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past by Ariel Nereson (University of Michigan Press)	Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin et al. (Levine Querido)	God and Race: A Guide for Moving Beyond Black Fists and White Knuckles by John Siebeling and Wayne Francis (HarperOne)
Heart of Atlanta: Five Black Pastors and the Supreme Court Victory for Integration by Ronnie Green (Lawrence Hill Books)	How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones (Henry Holt)	Jump: My Secret Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom by Larry Miller with Laila Lacy (Wiliam Morrow)
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates (Simon & Schuster)	Networking the Black Church: Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop by Erika D. Gault (New York University Press)	Police Brutality and White Supremacy: The Fight Against American Traditions by Etan Thomas (Akashic Books)
Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora by Kay Kaufman Shelemay (University of Chicago Press)	Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life-and-Death Stories, and a Black Activist’s Blueprint for Racial Justice by Solomon Jones (Beacon Press)	The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade by A. Rooks (Scribner)