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.

The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Racism, Racialization, Response and Resistance edited by Enid Logan (Routledge)	Becoming Sarah Forbes Bonetta: A Yorubá Woman in Queen Victoria’s Court by Henry B. Lovejoy (University of Toronto Press)	Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches edited by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf et al. (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Black Sojourner Press: Experiments in Black Periodical Culture Between Emancipation and Decolonization by Marina Bilbija (Columbia University Press)	D. H. Lawrence and Black Modernism: Transatlantic Influence and Confluence by Laura Ryan (Bloomsbury Academic)	Enter the Lion: The 1966 State Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean by John P. Homiak et al. (Duke University Press)
Frederick Douglass’s American Founding: How the Nation’s Fiercest Critic Embraced the Constitution by Dennis C. Rasmussen (Princeton University Press)	The Here Project: Pride and Belonging in African Art edited by Kevin D. Dumouchelle (Smithsonian Books)	Howard Thurman: Reflections on a Luminous Life by James Earl Massey (Friendship Press)
I Bet You Won’t Get Crunk! The Performative Resistance of Atlanta Hip-Hop Party Music by Kevin C. Holt (Oxford University Press)	Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect by Brian D. Goldman (Princeton University Press)	The Perilous Fight by Colin Kaepernick (Legacy Lit)
The Price of Union: Race, Power, and the Making of American Democracy by Kelly Burton (Amplify Publishing)	Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique Couvson (The New Press)	Slavery’s Long Goodbye: Capitalism, Nationalism and Christianity in the Age of British Emancipation by Chris Evans (Liverpool University Press)