Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars
Filed in Books on February 8, 2023

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:


Carnival in Alabama:
Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile
by Isabel Machado
(University Press of Mississippi)

Left in the Midwest:
St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
edited by Amanda L. Izzo and Benjamin Looker
(University of Missouri Press)

Postcolonial Identities and West African Literature
by Anwesha Das
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

Race in the Crucible of War:
African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam
by Gerald F. Goodwin
(University of Massachusetts Press)

Segregation Made Them Neighbors:
An Archaeology of Racialization in Boise, Idaho
by William A. White III
(University of Nebraska Press)

The Silver Women:
How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal
by Joan-Flores-Villalobos
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Transscalar Critique:
Climate, Blackness, Crisis
by Henry Ivry
(Edinburgh University Press)

Undoing Slavery:
Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
by Kathleen M. Brown
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

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