Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on April 1, 2021

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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, JBHE will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections:

Changing Perspectives: Black-Jewish Relations in Houston During the Civil Rights Era by Allison E. Schottenstein (University of North Texas Press)	Haunted by Slavery: A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle by Gwendolyn Midlo (Haymarket Books)	Lucifer and the Schoolteacher: The Trauma and Healing of Racism in American Education by Bebra Hobbs (Balboa Press)
National Identity and State Formation in Africa edited by Manuel Castells and Bernard Lategan (Polity)	The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman et al. (University of North Carolina Press)	The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans – and How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown (Crown Publishing)
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay (Harvard University Press)	Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur (W.W. Norton)	White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea Butler (University of North Carolina Press)