Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

November 9, 2023

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 Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union by Frank J. Cirillo (Louisiana State University)	An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design edited by Terresa Moses and Omari Souza (MIT Press)	The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity edited by Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis (Duke University Press)

Black Theology and Black Faith by Noel Leo Erskine (Eerdmans)	Black Women’s Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas by Reiland Rabaka (Routledge)	Dirt Don’t Burn: A Black Community’s Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation by Larry Roeder and Barry Harrelson (Georgetown University Press)

Literature, Art and Slavery: Ekphrastic Visions by Carl Plasa (Edinburgh University Press)	Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law by Giuliana Perrone (Cambridge University Press)	Out of the Fire: Healing Black Trauma Caused by Systemic Racism Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Jennifer Shepard Payne (New Harbinger Publications)

Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton (University of California Press)	What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music by Steve Bergsman (University Press of Mississippi)	Writing Centers and Racial Justice: A Guidebook for Critical Praxis edited by Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison and Deidre Anne Evans Garriotti (Utah State University Press)