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:

African American State Volunteers in the New South: Race, Masculinity, and the Militia in Georgia, Texas, and Virginia, 1871–1906 by John Patrick Blair (Texas A&M University Press)	Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (Duke University Press)	The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley (University of Texas Press)
Henry Taylor: B Side edited by Bennett Simpson (DelMonico Books)	Mad with Freedom: The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840–1940 by Elodie Edwards-Grossi (Louisiana State University Press)	Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors by Rue Mapp (Chronicle Books)
Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South by John Cimprich (Louisiana State University Press)	Racism and Resistance: Essay on Derrick Bell’s Racial Realism edited by Timothy Joseph Golden (State University of New York Press)	Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation edited by Gregory J. Reed (Zondervan)
Relocating the Sacred: African Divinities and Brazilian Cultural Hybridities by Niyi Afolabi (State University of New York Press)	Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad by Andrew K. Diemer (Alfred A. Knopf)	Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis (Duke University Press)