Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on May 13, 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:

A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America by Andrew Fuller (University of Georgia Press)	About Centering Possibility in Black Education by Chezare A. Warren (Teachers College Press)	America in Denial: How Race-Fair Policies Reinforce Racial Inequality in America by Lori Latrice Martin (State University of New York Press)
Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans by Laura Kilcer VanHuss (Louisiana State University Press)	Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter’s Love Story in Black and White by Kitt Shapiro and Patricia Weiss Levy (Pegasus Books)	Editing the Harlem Renaissance edited by Joshua M. Murray and Ross K. Tangedal (Clemson University Press)
Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895 edited by Hannah-Rose Murray and John R. McKivigan (Edinburgh University Press)	Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination by Braxton D. Shelley (Oxford University Press)	On Juneteenth by Annette Gordan-Reed (Liveright)
Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Paul Mocombe (Routledge)	Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad by Timothy D. Walker (University of Massachusetts Press)	The Nadir and the Zenith: Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel by Anna Pochmara (University of Georgia Press)