Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars
Filed in Books on April 3, 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 Terrible Thing to Waste:
Arthur Fletcher and the Conundrum of the Black Republican
by David Hamilton-Golland
(University Press of Kansas)

Blue Muse:
Timothy Duffy’s Southern Photographs
by Timothy Duffy
(University of North Carolina Press)

Civil War Places:
Seeing the Conflict Through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
edited by Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman
(University of North Carolina Press)

Conversations with Colson Whitehead
edited by Derek C. Maus
(University Press of Mississippi)

Dancing Revolution:
Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History
by Christopher J. Smith
(University of Illinois Press)

Global Garveyism
edited by Ronald J. Stephens and Adam Ewing
(University Press of Florida)

Hattiesburg:
An American City in Black and White
by William Sturkey
(Belknap Press)

Hope in the Struggle:
A Memoir
by Josie R. Johnson
(University of Minnesota Press)

Lynching:
Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity
by Ersula J. Ore
(University of Mississippi Press)

Rebellious Passage:
The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade
by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
(Cambridge University Press)

Robert R. Church Jr. and the African American Political Struggle
by Darius J. Young
(University Press of Florida)

You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer:
Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism
by Tsedale M. Melaku
(Rowman & Litttlefield Publishers)

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