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.

Better Black Health: A Comprehensive Guide in the Age of Precision Medicine by Gregory L. Hall et al. (Archway Publishing)	Between the Street and the State: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism Amid the War on Crime by Caitlin Reed Wiesner (University of Pennsylvania Press)	The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (Portfolio)
The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education by Justin Driver (Columbia Global Reports)	Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago by Zophia Edwards (Duke University Press)	Haiti and the Revolution Unseen: The Persistence of the Decolonial Imagination by Natalie Marie Leger (Vanderbilt University Press)
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr. by Marion Orr (University of North Carolina Press)	Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families by Christina J. Cross (Harvard University Press)	Local Color: Reckoning With Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz by Karma T. Frierson (University of California Press)
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985 edited by Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis (Yale University Press)	Towering Above Harlem: Geographies of Race and the Power of Elite Institutions by Steven Gregory (New York University Press)	A Victory for Democracy: NAACP v. Alabama and Freedom of Association by Charles W. Eagles (Oxford University Press)
Voices of the Formerly Enslaved in Louisiana: The WPA Narratives edited by Andrea Livesey (Louisiana State University Press)	The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters by Sasha Bonet (Alfred F. Knopf)	Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights by Keisha N. Blain (W.W. Norton)