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.

The Empowerment of African American Males in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Beloved Community by Shelly Ranell Sims (Palmetto Publishing)	From Enslavement to COVID-19: A History of African American Health and Labor by Joe William Trotter Jr. (University of North Carolina Press)	Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra by Laurian R. Bowles (University of Pennsylvania Press)
The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle Over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa by Toby Green (University of Chicago Press)	Let Us Alone: The Origins of Baltimore’s Police State by Michael Casiano (University of Illinois Press)	Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln by Saladin Ambar (Diversion Books)
One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal by Nicholas Buccola (Princeton University Press)	Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis (Princeton University Press)	The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (Duke University Press)
Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era by Marlee S. Bunch (University of Illinois Press)	Voices of Black Graduate Deans in Advancing Graduate Education at Historically White Universities edited by Henry T. Frierson (Emerald Publishing)	The Yoruba Are on a Rock: Recaptured Africans and the Orisas of Grenada by Shantel A. George (Cambridge University Press)