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.

Aristotle in the Antebellum South: Natural Slavery, Democracy, and the Ancients by Daniel S. Richter (Oxford University Press)	Black Oxford: Untold Stories of Oxford University’s Black Scholars by Pamela Roberts (Signal Books)	Crowd Control: The Racial Ordering of Literary Reward by Claire Grossman et al. (Columbia University Press)
Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology by Earl Wright II (University of North Carolina Press)	A Sharecropper’s Son: Growing Up Black in Rural South Carolina 1918-1965 by Roger Leaks Jr. (Palmetto Publishing)	Slavery, Indentureship, and Women’s Labor: Early British Guiana’s Jail  by Estherine G. H. Adams (University Press of Mississippi)
Sonorous Passages: Black Maternal Soundings and the Liberation Imaginary by Meina Yates-Richard (Duke University Press)	This Insurgent Ground: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp by Kathryn Benjamin Golden (University of North Carolina Press)	Whose Beloved Community? The Intersections of Black and LGBTQ Civil Rights edited by Dwight A. McBride et al (University of Illinois Press)