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. Here are the latest selections.

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Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided by Catherine Pelonero (Skyhorse Publishing)	Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation edited by David W. Blight and Jim Downs (University of Georgia Press)	Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine by Kelley Fanto Deetz (University Press of Kentucky)
Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann (Oneworld Publications)	Bullets and Fire: Lynching and Authority in Arkansas, 1840-1950 by Guy Lancaster (University of Arkansas Press)	Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941 by John Claborn (Bloomsbury Academic)
Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture by John Levi Barnard (Oxford University Press)	Langston’s Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem by Wallace D. Best (New York University Press)	Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice by Jonathan Kahn (Columbia University Press)
Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies by Robert S. Levine (Cambridge University Press)	Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction by Mark C. Jerng (Fordham University Press)	Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology by Vincent W. Lloyd (Fordham University Press)
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History by Anna Lucia Araujo (Bloomsbury Academic)	Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation by Ikuko Asaka (Duke University Press)	Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (Bloomsbury Circus)