Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on December 27, 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.

African Development, African Transformation: How Institutions Shape Development Strategy by Landry Signe (Cambridge University Press)	Breaking Barriers: A History of Integration in Professional Basketball by Douglas Stark (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Brooklyn On My Mind: Black Visual Artists from the WPA to the Present by Myrah Brown Green (Schiffer)
Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington’s Mount Vernon by Carla Killough McClafferty (Holiday House)	Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution by David Austin (Pluto Press)	Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City by Clarence Taylor (New York University Press)
Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil by Patricia de Santana Pinho (University of North Carolina Press)	Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism edited by Msia Kibona Clark et al. (Lexington Books)	Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean edited by Maarit Forde and Yanique Hume (Duke University Press)
Patriotism Black and White: The Color of American Exceptionalism by Nichole R. Phillips (Baylor University Press)	Perspectives on Diverse Student Identities in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion edited by Jaimie Hoffman et al. (Emerald Publishing)	The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance edited by Kathy A. Perkins et al. (Routledge)