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:

The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire by Kal Raustiala (Oxford University Press)	Adoption Across Race and Nation: US Histories and Legacies edited by Silke Hackenesch (Ohio State University Press)	AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle From an Intersectional Perspective edited by Rosita Scerbo and Concetta Bondi (Lexington Books)
Anti-Blackness at School: Creating Affirming Educational Spaces for African American Students by Joi A. Spencer and Kerri Ullucci (Teachers College Press)	The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980 by Jennifer Helgren (University of Nebraska Press)	Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans by Sally A. Nuamah (Cambridge University Press)
Gruesome Looking Objects: A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things by Elijah Gaddis (Cambridge University Press)	It’s Our Movement Now: Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference edited by Laura L. Lovett et al. (University Press of Florida)	Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Coretta Pittman (University Press of Mississippi)
Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights by Robert Hamburger (University Press of Mississippi)	Over-Sexualization of Black Women in America by Avery Washington (Happie Publishing)	Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery by Jennifer Van Horn (Yale University Press)
Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America by Vanessa I. Corredera (Edinburgh University Press)	Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial Pictures by Sandrine Colard et al. (Lannoo Publishers)	Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema by Jennifer DeClue (Duke University Press)