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.

Always Looking Forward: A Life in Law, Learning, and Liberation by James Edward Bowers (University of South Carolina Press)	Another View: The Vibrant World of Contemporary Black Artists edited by Isolde Brielmaier et al. (Phaidon Press)	Black Memory Landscapes: Sites of Remembrance and Resistance edited by Roger Aden and Patricia Davis (Routledge)
Black Radical Thought in Japan: An Afro-Asian Intellectual History by Yuichiro Onishi (University of Washington Press)	Black Song: A Manifesto for Music and Justice by Louise Toppin et al. (University of Michigan Press)	Culture and Containment: Race, Geographic Mobility, and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century America by Colin L. Anderson (University of North Carolina Press)
Distinctly American Performance in New Negro Renaissance Literature by Julie Anne Naviaux (Bloomsbury Academic)	Equal to the Task: A Life Forged Between America’s Promise and Its Truth by Kenneth Chenault (HarperCollins)	Irma Thomas: Soul Queen of New Orleans by Johnette Downing and Scott Billington (University Press of Mississippi)
Making Creole: Women and the Creole Community in Early Jim Crow New Orleans by Natasha L. McPherson (Louisiana State University Press)	Policing and the American Racial State from Plantation to Algorithm by Jason M. Williams (Routledge)	Soul Sounds: The Afterlife in African American Literature and Music by Daylanne English (Fordham University Press)