Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on July 12, 2018

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.

A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass edited by Neil Roberts and Anne Norton (University Press of Kentucky)	Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland by James Robenalt (Chicago Review Press)	Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America by Martha S. Jones (Cambridge University Press)
Counternarratives From Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance edited by Manya C. Whitaker and Eric Anthony Grollman (Routledge)	Gender and the Abjection of Blackness by Sabine Broeck (State University of New York Press)	Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship by Melanie A. Medeiros (Rutgers University Press)
One Life at a Time: An American Doctor’s Memoir of AIDS in Botswana by Daniel Baxter (Skyhorse Publishing)	Serving African American Children edited by Sheryl Brissett-Chapman (Routledge)	She Preached the Word: Women’s Ordination in Modern America by Benjamin R. Knoll and Cammie Jo Bolin (Oxford University Press)