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:

An African American Philosophy of Medicine by Frederick V. Newsome (Dorrance Publishing)	Alain Locke and the Visual Arts by Kobena Mercer (Yale University Press)	America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir by Boyah J. Farah (Harper)
Beyond the Voting Rights Act: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Reform America’s Voter Registration Laws by Gregory T. Moore (De Gruyter)	Black Matters: Lewis Morrow Plays edited by Nicole Hodges Persley (Methuen Drama)	Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture by Michael Roy (University of Wisconsin Press)
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon and Humanitarian by Helen Rappaport (Pegasus Books)	King’s Vibrato: Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr. by Maurice O. Wallace (Duke University Press)	Race and Excellence: My Dialogue with Chester Pierce by Ezra E.H. Griffith (American Psychiatric Association Publishing)
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up by Remica Bingham-Risher (Beacon Press)	Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration by Tasseli McKay (University of California Press)	The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century by Peniel E. Joseph (Basic Books)
A Time Before Crack: Photographs from the 1980s by Jamel Shabazz (PowerHouse Books)	Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century by Patricia A. Turner (University of California Press)	A Visible Man: A Memoir by Edward Enninful (Penguin Press)