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.

Avenue Breakdown: Black Music and the Recording Industry in Shreveport by John A. Shaw (University Press of Mississippi)	Black Abolitionists in Ireland by Christine Kinealy (Routledge)	Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers by Monique Couvson (The New Press)
Break the System: Criminalized Black Mothers and the Reproductive Politics of Abolition by Susila Gurusami (University of Chicago Press)	Breaking Barriers: A Librarian’s Story of Changing Times by Robert Wedgeworth (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited)	The Cambridge History of African American Poetry edited by Keith D. Leonard (Cambridge University Press)
Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship: Leading a Texas City’s Desegregation by Annetta Ramsey (Texas A&M University Press)	Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis by Jennifer DeVere Brody (Duke University Press)	Race Talk in Institutional Settings: A Language and Social Interaction Perspective by Natasha Shrikant and Francesca Williamson (Peter Lang International Publishers)
Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA by Terrell J.A. Winder (New York University Press)	The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory by Sharron Wilkins Conrad (University of North Carolina Press)	Tulsa Speaks: A City Council, Reparations, and Race in America Today by Kristal Brent Zook (Rutgers University Press)