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.

An African Introduction to the New Testament edited by Ferdinand I. Okorie et al. (Fortress Press)	August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art by Laurence A. Glasco (University of Pittsburgh Press)	Call and Response: 10 Leadership Lessons From the Black Church by L. Michelle Smith (Amistad)
The Color of Paper: Representing Race in the Comics Medium by Chris Gavaler (Ohio State University Press)	Death or Victory: The Louisiana Native Guards and the Black Military’s Significance in the Civil War by A.J. Cade (Louisiana State University Press)	Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone by Jeffrey Richmond-Moll and Shawnya L. Harrris (University of Chicago Press)
The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family by Dorothy Roberts (Atria)	New Perspectives in Africana Studies: Innovations in Africana Studies in the Era of Black Lives Matter edited by Crystal L. Edwards and Abul Pitre (Hamilton Books)	The Police, Activists, and Knowledge: The Struggle Against Racialized Policing in France by Magda Boutros (Stanford University Press)
The Political Economy of Racism: The Persistence of Anti-Blackness in the United States by Michelle Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim (Polity)	Race Riot! Mob Lynching! Senseless Death! A Hurricane of Racial Violence Sparked the Civil Rights Movement: 1917-1960s by Howard James Jordan (Dorrance Publishing)	The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home by Wil Haygood (Alfred A. Knopf)