Recent Books That May Be 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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Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers by Matthew J. Clavin (Harvard University Press)	Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861 by Keith Michael Green (University of Alabama Press)	Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum by Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner (Ecco Press)
Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop: An Ethnography of African American Men in Psychiatric Custody by Katie Rose Hejtmanek (Palgrave Macmillan)	Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century by Robert D. Jacobus (Texas A&M University Press)	Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul by Tanisha Ford (University of North Carolina Press)
Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic by Wendy Wilson-Fall (Ohio University Press)	Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire by Shane White (St. Martin’s Press)	Selma 1965: The Photographs of Spider Martin by Spider Martin (University of Texas Press)
Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora by Nadia Ellis (Duke University Press)	The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space by Andrea E. Frohne (Syracuse University Press)	The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel by Gary Dorrien (Yale University Press)
Un-American: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution by Bill V. Mullen (Temple University Press)	Who Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners by Ed Pavlic (Fordham University Press)	Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment by Sybil Haydel Morial (John F. Blair)