Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

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 Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey From the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz (Ballantine Books)	Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC by Barbara Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green (Georgetown University Press)	Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba by Takkare K. Brunson (University of Florida Press)
Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander edited by Nina Banks (Yale University Press)	Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation by Adam Rothman (Georgetown University Press)	Letters to My White Male Friends by Dax-Devlon Ross (St. Martin’s Press)
Miseducated: A Memoir by Brandon P. Fleming (Hachette Books)	Queer Tidalectics: Linguistic and Sexual Fluidity in Contemporary Black Diasporic Literature by Emilio Amideo (Northwestern University Press)	Racism, Slavery, Salvation and the Bible: What’s Wrong With America From A Christian Pastor’s Perspective by Nathaniel Powell (Austin Brothers Publishers)
Reckoning With Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan (Duke University Press)	Seeing Serena by Gerald Marzorati (Scribner)	The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living With Less by Christine Platt (Tiller Press)
“This Is America” Race, Gender, and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape by Katie Rios (Lexington Books)	To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America by Andrew Baker (The New Press)	When Evil Lived in Laurel: The “White Knights” and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer by Curtis Wilkie (W.W. Norton & Co.)