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:

Big Red’s Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and a Story of Race in America by Mark Hertsgaard (Pegasus Books)	Black Meme: A History of the Images That Make Us by Legacy Russell (Verso)	Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action by Donna J. Nicol (University of Rochester Press)
Body Impossible: Desmond Richardson and the Politics of Virtuosity by Ariel Osterweis (Oxford University Press)	Coming Home by Brittney Griner with Michelle Burford (Alfred A. Knopf)	Conditionally Accepted: Navigating Higher Education From the Margins edited by Eric Joy Denise and Bertin M. Louis Jr. (University of Texas Press)
Discipline Problems: How Students of Color Trouble Whiteness in Schools by Tadashi Dozono (University of Pennsylvania Press)	The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Randy M. Browne (University of Pennsylvania Press)	The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Larry Tye (Mariner Books)
The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America by Michelle S. Phelps (Princeton University Press)	Tales From the Symphony: Perspectives From African American Musicians by Robert Lee Watt (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes On a Deadly American Epidemic by Rob Gore (Beacon Press)