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.

Black Appalachia: Race, Place, and Identity edited by Cicero M. Fain III et al. (University Press of Kentucky)	Crowd Control: The Racial Ordering of Literary Reward by Claire Grossman et al. (Columbia University Press)	Diasporic Connections: How Afro-Brazilians Use African American Culture to Challenge Racial Exceptionalism by Reighan Gillam (Columbia University Press)
Forgive Us Our Debts: How Black Churches Use Bankruptcy to Survive by Pamela Foohey (University of Chicago Press)	Fugitive States: The Life of Charlie Hill, a Black Radical Exile in Socialist Cuba by Tristan A. Latner (University of North Carolina Press)	History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings & Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery by Richard Kurin (Crown Publishing)
The Racial Politics of Listening: Deference, Power, and Relationality by Clifton L. Granby (Oxford University Press)	The Routledge Companion to James Baldwin edited by Yasmin Y. DeGout et al. (Routledge)	Soul: A Brief History of Black Cultural Life by Christopher Freeburg (Yale University Press)
Soul City: Oakland, U.S.A. by Ken Light (Heyday)	Transnational Africa: Culture, Religion and the Diaspora by Mary Nyangweso (Routledge)	Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II by Tejasvi Nagaraja (University of Pennsylvania Press)