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:

Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom by Frederick Knight (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art by Sarah Phillips Casteel (Columbia University Press)	Darkening Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought by Norman Ajari (Polity)
Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight by Richard Frishman and B. Brian Foster (Celadon Books)	Houston and the Permanence of Segregation: An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History by David Ponton III (University of Texas Press)	Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid (Mariner Books)
Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space by Bayley J. Marquez (University of California Press)	The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance by Mark Rifkin (Duke University Press)	Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation by Marcus Anthony Hunter (Amistad)
The Spirit of Freedom: Powerful Women of the Civil Rights Movement by Martin Gitlin (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations by David Montero (Legacy Lit)	Union Divided: Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality by Leta E. Miller (University of Illinois Press)