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 Visions of the Holy Land: African American Christian Engagement With Israel and Palestine by Roger Baumann (Columbia University Press)	Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti: The Challenges of Living Together edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Lewis A. Clormeus (Bloomsbury)	Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit by Robin Bernstein (University of Chicago Press)
Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists by Paula Marie Seniors (University of Georgia Press)	Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay: Colonoware in the African and Indigenous Diasporas of the Southeast edited by Jon Bernard Marcoux and Corey A.H. Sattes (University of Alabama Press)	Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature by Bryan Sinche (University of North Carolina Press)
The Rise and Fall of The Freedman’s Savings Bank: And its Lasting Socio-Economic Impact on Black America by Rodney A. Brooks (Spiramus Press)	Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South by Shannon Eaves (University of North Carolina Press)	The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby (Pantheon)
The Violent World of Broadus Miller: A Story of Murder, Lynch Mobs, and Judicial Punishment in the Carolinas by Kevin W. Young (University of North Carolina Press)	We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men edited by Angela P. Dodson (Broadleaf Books)	We Shook Up the World: The Spiritual Rebellion of Muhammad Ali and George Harrison by Tracy Daugherty (University of Oklahoma Press)