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:

African Immigrants and the American Experience: Race, Anti-Black Violence, and the Quest for the American Dream edited by Wanjala S. Nasong’o (Lexington Books)	Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo (Bloomsbury Publishing)	Derek Walcott’s Painters: A Life with Pictures by Maria Cristina Fumagalli (Edinburgh University Press)
Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation by William Jennings (Liverpool University Press)	Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality by Sancha Doxilly Medwinter (University of Georgia Press)	The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration by Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friedfeld (Bison Books)
Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly (Redhawk Publications)	Object Performance in the Black Atlantic by Paulette Richards (Routledge)	Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae (Scribner)
Radical Empathy in Multicultural Women’s Fiction: From the Library to Liberation by Lara S. Marcisi (Lexington Books)	Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852-1869 by Kristin Allukian (University of Georgia Press)	The Stigma of Mental Health in the African American Community by Antonio Brigham (HMD Publishing)
“This World Is Not My Home” A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright by W. Lawrence Hoge (University of Massachusetts Press)	Twentieth Century Frontierswoman: A Rhetorical Biography of Almena Davis Lomax, Journalist by Chandra Snell Clark (Peter Lang)	Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town by Langton Collin Wilkins (University of Illinois Press)