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.

Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence by Mary Freeman (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History by Allyson Nadia Field (University of California Press)	Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins (Routledge)
Expelled: James Lawson Jr. and Vanderbilt University by Benjamin Houston (Vanderbilt University Press)	Have Mercy Baby: The Life of Clyde McPhatter by Steve Bergsman (University Press of Mississippi)	Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future: Forms of Knowledge in the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora by Isis Barra Costa (Columbia University Press)
Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work by Bianca J. Baldridge (Stanford University Press)	Liberia, 1900–1950: Accounts of the First African Republic by C. Abayomi Cassell (Hamilton Books)	Mura Dehn: Champion of Black Social Dance and the Traditional Jazz Dance Company by Kim Chandler Vaccaro (Bloomsbury Academic)
Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love by James Lawson Jr. and Emily Yellin (Random House)	On Morrison by Namwali Serpell (Hogarth)	Out of the Rough: Ted Rhodes and His Fight Against Golf’s Color Barrier by Dan Taylor (Bloomsbury Academic)
Sharpened Blade: The Story of Dinah Clark by Joseph J. Swope (Black Rose Writing)	Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels by Donald M. Shaffer (University Press of Mississippi Press)	The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films by Ashley Clark (Laurence King Publishing)