Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on December 9, 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:

Beaten Black and Blue: Being a Black Cop in an America Under Siege by Brandon Tatum (Bombardier Books)	Black Campus Life: The Worlds Black Engineering Majors Make at a Historically White Institution by Antar A. Tichavakunda (State University of New York Press)	Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands by Paul Barba (University of Nebraska Press)
Disorientation: Being Black in The World by Ian Williams (Europa Compass)	My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss edited by Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis (University of Virginia Press)	Ralph Ellison in Context edited by Paul Devlin (Cambridge University Press)
Stakes Is High: Trials, Lessons, and Triumphs in Young Black Men’s Educational Journeys by Derrick R. Brooms (State University of New York Press)	White Men’s Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism by Peter Irons (Oxford University Press)	Word From the Mother: Language and African Americans by Geneva Smitherman (Routledge)