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:

Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness by Arlette Ingram Willis et al. (Teachers College Press)	Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt by Phoebe Zerwick (Atlantic Monthly Press)	Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive by Mark Anthony Neal (New York University Press)
Denmark Vesey’s Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial by Jeremy Schipper (Princeton University Press)	The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America by Deepa Purushothamn (Harper Business)	Media and the Affective Life of Slavery by Allison Page (University of Minnesota Press)
NAACP in Washington, D.C.: From Jim Crow to Home Rule by Derek Gray (History Press)	Teaching as Protest: Emancipating Classrooms Through Racial Consciousness by Robert S. Harvey and Susan Gonzowitz (Routledge)	To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton (W.W. Norton)
Transformational Sanctuaries in the Middle Level ELA Classroom: Creating Truth Spaces for Black Girls by Dywanna Smith (Routledge)	Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History edited by Michele A. Johnson and Funke Aladejebi (University of Toronto Press)	Working While Black: The Untold Stories of Student Affairs Practitioners by Antione D. Tomlin (Information Age Publishing)