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.

A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 by Antwain K. Hunter (University of North Carolina Press)	African American Film Noir and Philosophy: Racing Shadow and Light by Dan Flory (Bloomsbury Academic)	Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams by Javier Wallace (Duke University Press)
The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil: Making Sense of Social Policy as Reparations by Madalitso Phiri (Brill Academic Publishing)	Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol by Sanyu A. Mojola (University of California Press)	The Devil’s Own Purgatory: The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War by Robert H. Gudmestad (Louisiana State University Press)
The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation by Jim Clyburn (Little, Brown)	Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness by Jonathan Howard (Duke University Press)	The Satire of the New Black Renaissance: Open-Source Blackness by Kamil Chrzczonowicz (Routledge)
This Unruly Witness: June Jordan’s Legacy edited by Lauren Miller et al. (Haymarket Books)	We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation by Martha Biondi (University of California Press)	Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race and How to Fix It by Joseph L. Graves Jr. (Columbia University Press)