Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on October 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.

A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories by Bettye Collier-Thomas (Beacon Press)	African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era by Jeannette E. Brown (Oxford University Press)	Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology edited by Cassander L. Smith et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing (University of Chicago Press)	Interracial Relationships Between Black Women and White Men by Cheryl Y. Judice (BookBaby)	Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter (Henry Holt)
Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture by Tamura Lomax (Duke University Press)	Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement by D’Weston Haywood (University of North Carolina Press)	On Fire in Baltimore: Black Mormon Women and Conversion in a Raging City by Laura Rutter Strickling (Greg Kofford Books)
Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity by Ralina L. Joseph (New York University Press)	Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories edited by Tiffany Florvil and Vanessa Plumly (Peter Lang International)	The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry by Emily Ruth Rutter (University of Alabama Press)