Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on January 16, 2019

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.

Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali by Randal Maurice Jelks (Bloomsbury Academic)	It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen (Bold Type Books)	On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay by Cheryl A. Wall (University of North Carolina Press)
Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015 by Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of California Press)	The Black Knight: An African-American Family’s Journey from West Point – A Life of Duty, Honor and Country by Clifford Worthy (Front Edge Publishing)	The College Completion Glass — Half-full or Half-Empty by Tiffany Beth Mfume (Rowman & Littlefield)
The Slave Master of Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Selwyn R. Cudjoe (University of Massachusetts Press)	Unsung Legacies of Educators and Events in African American Education by Andrea D. Lewis and Nicole A. Taylor (Palgrave Macmillan)	Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America by Joe William Trotter Jr. (University of California Press)