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.

Here are the latest selections:

A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America by Andrew Feller (University of Georgia Press)	Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture by Badia Ahad-Legardy (University of Illinois Press)	Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song by Marlon Peterson (Bold Type Books)
Boxed Out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League by Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Critical Race Studies Across Disciplines: Resisting Racism Through Scholactivism edited by Jonathan Chism et al. (Lexington Books)	Freedom’s Ring: Literatures of Liberation From Civil Rights to the Second Wave by Jacqueline Foertsch (Rutgers University Press)
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching by Jarvis R. Givens (Harvard University Press)	Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay by Shanna Greene Benjamin (University of North Carolina Press)	Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design by Kristina Wilson (Princeton University Press)
Museums and Atlantic Slavery by Ana Lucia Araujo (Routledge)	No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen L. Cox (University of North Carolina Press)	Not Your Mother’s Mammy: The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women’s Media by Tracey L. Walters (Rutgers University Press)
Re-Imagining Black Women: A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics by Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd (New York University Press)	Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940–1970 by Laura Warren Hill (Cornell University Press)	The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuir’s Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era by Jack M. Beermann (University Press of Kansas)
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay (University of Illinois Press)	The Paradox of Diversity In Public & Private Sectors: Reflections of an African-American Female Educator by Kehinde I. Olowoyeye (Lulu Press)	The Pursuit of Excellence: Kentucky State University, 1886-2020 by John A. Hardin (Information Age Publishing)