Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

October 26, 2022

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 Women Will Save the World: An Anthem by April Ryan (Amistad)	Black Women’s Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power by Carol Boyce Davies (Lexington Books)	Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines by Ruth Laney (Louisiana State University Press)
Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power by Marzia Milazzo (Northwestern University Press)	First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service edited by Tracy Lachica Buenavista et al. (Rutgers University Press)	Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont (Viking)
How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good by Steve Phillips (The New Press)	“I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife” African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era by Rita Roberts (Chronicle Books)	The Isaiah Fountain Case: Outrage and Jim Crow Justice on Maryland’s Eastern Shore by Joseph Koper (Secant Publishing)
Making Choices, Making Do: Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women During the Great Depression by Lois Rita Helmbold (Rutgers University Press)	The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City by Nicholas Dawidoff (W.W. Norton)	The Poetic Justice: A Memoir by John Charles Thomas (University of Virginia Press)
Power: The Rise of Black Women in America by Charity C. Elder (Skyhorse)	Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story by Joe Coscarelli (Simon & Shuster)	Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971 edited by Doris Berger and Rhea L. Combs (DelMonico Books)
Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn’t Built for Us by Alison Mariella Desir (Portfolio)	Using Self-efficacy for Improving Retention and Success of Diverse Student Populations edited by Jeffrey Herron (Information Science Reference)	Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement by Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith (Rutgers University Press)