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:

Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America by Patricia A. Banks (Stanford University Press)	Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra (Scribner)	Gender Inequalities in Africa’s Mining Policies: A Study of Inequalities, Resource Conflict and Sustainability by Francis Onditi (Springer)
Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South by Brendan J.J. Payne (Louisiana State University Press)	Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History edited by Brandon R. Byrd et al. (Northwestern University Press)	Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement by Victoria W. Wolcott (University of Chicago Press)
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 by Autumn Womack (University of Chicago Press)	Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius (Belknap Press)	Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History by Jori Lewis (The New Press)
A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer H. Lansbury (University of Arkansas Press)	Talking College: Making Space for Black Language Practices in Higher Education by Anne H. Charity Hudley (Teachers College Press)	Voices of Black Folk: The Sermons of Reverend A. W. Nix by Terri Brinegar (University Press of Mississippi)