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:

Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement by Dan Abrams and Fred D. Gray (Hanover Square Press)	The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era by Claude Johnson (Abrams Press)	Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery by dann J. Broyld (Louisiana State University Press)
City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit by Kyle T. Mays (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Excavating the Histories of Slave-Trade and Pirate Ships: Property, Plunder and Loss edited by Lynn Brenda Harris and Valerie Ann Johnson (Springer)	Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee by John M. Shaw (University Press of Mississippi)
A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age by Phillip Dray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)	The State of Black America: Progress, Pitfalls, and the Promise of the Republic edited by W.B. Allen (Encounter Books)	A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools by Michael Hines (Beacon Press)