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 Coping in the Political Sphere by Jas M. Sullivan and Moriah Harman (State University of New York Press)	American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration by Benjamin D. Weber (The New Press)	Battling While Black: General Patton’s Heroic African American WWII Battalions by Peter J. Gravett (Koehler Books)
The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras by Sharony Green (Johns Hopkins University Press)	Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’: Political Order and Distributive Crisis by Tom Lavers (Cambridge University Press)	The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope by Kareem Muhammad (Routledge)
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele (Random House)	Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration by Lisa Barg (Wesleyan University Press)	The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (University of North Carolina Press)
Racial Emotion at Work: Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace by Tristan K. Green (University of California Press)	The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line by James M. Thomas (University of Georgia Press)	The Violent Underpinnings of American Life: How Violence Maintains Social Order in the U.S. by Liam Downey (New York University Press)