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.

Here are the latest selections.

Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris by Julie Kleinman (University of California Press)	African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students edited by Hans A. Ostrom and John David Macey Jr. (Greenwood)	Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks by Sarah Florini (New York University Press)
Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History by Kerry Walters (ABC-CLIO)	Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s by Marilyn Allman Maye et al. (Books & Books Press)	Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice by Andrea Freeman (Stanford University Press)
The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability by Nikki Lane (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation by Peggy Wallace Kennedy (Bloomsbury Publishing)	The Origins of the Dual City: Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago by Joel Rast (University of Chicago Press)
The Routledge Companion to African American Art History edited by Eddie Chambers (Routledge)	The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison edited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner (Random House)	Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter: African American History and Representation by Andrew Dix and Peter Templeton (Routledge)