Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on October 10, 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.

Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer: Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend by Seth Mallios (Berghahn Books)	Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South by Mike Selby (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Lady Tigers in the Concrete Jungle: How Softball and Sisterhood Saved Lives in the South Bronx by Dibs Baer (Pegasus Books)
Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History by Rachel Douglas (Duke University Press)	Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt by Jason Hackworth (Columbia Univerdsity Press)	Maria Baldwin’s Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice by Kathleen Weiler (University of Massachusetts Press)
Precarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic by Alexandra Perisic (Ohio State University Press)	The Allure of Blackness Among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 by Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly (University of Nebraska Press)	The Black Butterfly: Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination by Marcus Wood (West Virginia University Press)
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola (Princeton University Press)	To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions by Amaka Okechukwu (Columbia University Press)	W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne (ABC-CLIO)