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:

Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life by Habiba Ibrahim (New York University Press)	Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter: A Multidisciplinary Primer edited by Abdul Karim Bangura (Lexington Books)	George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870-1908 by Jason Winders (University of Arkansas Press)
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America by Tyler Merritt (Worthy Books)	In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow by Robert H. Mayer (NewSouth Books)	Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo (Amistad)
Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America by Keith Boykin (Bold Type Books)	Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System by Jarrett Adams (Convergent Books)	Retail Racism: Shopping While Black and Brown in America by Michelle Dunlap (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming by Antonio Michael Downing (Milkweed Editions)	Teaching Black History to White People by Leonard N. Moore (University of Texas Press)	The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide by Nice Leng’ete (Little, Brown & Co.)
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World by Dave Zinn (The New Press)	The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism by Lindsey Stewart (Northwestern University Press)	The Quiet Trailblazer: My Journey as the First Black Graduate of the University of Georgia by Mary Frances Early (Scholarly Publishing)
The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh (University of North Carolina Press)	Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Taran Burke (Flatiron Books)	White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin (Beacon Press)