Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on July 18, 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.

Beyond Cuban Waters: Africa, La Yuma, and the Island’s Global Imagination by Paul Ryer (Vanderbilt University Press)	Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta by Julian Rankin (University of Georgia Press)	Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South by David Stefan Doddington (Cambridge University Press)
Media Across the African Diaspora: Content, Audiences, and Influence by Omotayo O. Banjo (Routledge)	One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928 by Matthew J. Mancini (University of South Carolina Press)	Race, Economics and the Politics of Educational Change: The Dynamics of School District Consolidation in Shelby County, Tennessee edited by John M. Amis and Paul M. Wright (University of Tennessee Press)
Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power edited by Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt (University Press of Florida)	The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580–1880: Trade, Slavery, and Emancipation by Pieter Emmer (Routledge)	The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela edited by Sahm Venter (Liveright)