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:

Afrocentric Innovations in Higher Education edited by Vida R. Robertson et al. (Hamilton Books)	Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging by Matthew R. Morris (Viking Books)	Black Transnationalism and Japan edited by Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi (University of Leiden Press)
Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education by Jasmine L. Harris (Broadleaf Books)	The Black Yearbook by Adraint Khadafhi Bereal (4 Color Books)	Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches From the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century by Janet Dewart Bell (The New Press)
Blazing Toward Freedom: Septima Poinsette Clark’s Story from Slave to Queen Mother of the Movement by Carolyn P. Jenkins (C. P. Consult)	Central City’s Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project by Jerome E. Morris (University of Georgia Press)	Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness by Anthony B. Pinn (Duke University Press)
John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community by Raymond Arsenault (Yale University Press)	The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia’s New York by Shannon King (University of North Carolina Press)	See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition by Christopher Micahel Brown (University Press of Mississippi)
Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II: A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism edited by Michael E. Lomax and Billy Hawkins (University Pressof Mississippi)	Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children’s Narratives about Slavery and Freedom by Karen Michele Chandler (University Press of Mississippi Press)	White Ice: Race and the Making of Atlanta Hockey by Thomas Aiello (University of Tennessee Press)