Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on March 28, 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.

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green (University of Chicago Press)	American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World by Christina Proenza-Coles (NewSouth Books)	Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy (University of North Carolina Press)
Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning by Rafia Zafar (University of Georgia Press)	Success Factors for Minorities in Engineering by Jacqueline Fleming and Irving Pressley McPhail (Routledge)	The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History by Alys Eve Weinbaum (Duke University Press)
The Drum Major Instinct: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Theory of Political Service by Justin Rose (University of Georgia Press)	The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880 by Wendy Gonaver (University of North Carolina Press)	To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism edited by Keisha Blain and Tiffany Gill (University of Illinois Press)