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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Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics by Margo Natalie Crawford (University of Illinois Press)	Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies edited by Joel Stone (Painted Turtle)	He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty by S. Jonathan Bass (Liveright)
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life by Jonathan Gould (Crown Archetype)	Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction by Tuire Valkeakari (University Press of Florida)	Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971 by Leigh Montville (Doubleday)
The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia by Julian Maxwell Hayter (University Press of Kentucky)	The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean by Daniel B. Rood (Oxford University Press)	The Revolt of the Black Athlete by Harry Edwards (University of Illinois Press)