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:

An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism by David Weinfeld (Cornell University Press)	Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America by Ben Carson (Center Street)	Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele’s Get Out by Kevin Wynter (Bloomsbury Academic)
DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution by Lance Scott Walker (University of Chicago Press)	Heathen: Religion and Race in American History by Kathryn Gin Lum (Harvard University Press)	His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking Books)
Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label by Dan Hassler-Forest (Rutgers University Press)	Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation edited by Orville Vernon Burton and Peter Eisenstadt (Louisiana State University Press)	Reading Black Books by Claude Atcho (Brazos Books)
The Real Hank Aaron: An Intimate Look at the Life and Legacy of the Home Run King by Terence Moore (Triumph Books)	A Redemptive Path Forward: From Incarceration to a Life of Activism by Antong Lucky (Counterpoint)	Riders in the Storm: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Black Cavalry Regiment in the Civil War by John D. Warner Jr. (Stackpole Books)
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle by Shannen Dee Williams (Duke University Press)	The 2% Way: How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery by Myron L. Rolle (Zondervan)	This Was America, 1865-1965: Unequal Citizens in the Segregated Republic by Gerd Korman (Academic Studies Press)