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:

The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter by Shaun M. Anderson (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Black Mercuries: African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games by David K. Wiggins et al. (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance by Francesca Royster (Harry N. Abrams)
Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era by Matthew Frye Jacobsen (University of California Press)	The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class by Kris Marsh (Cambridge University Press)	Lucky Medicine: A Memoir of Success Beyond Segregation by Lester W. Thompson (Indiana University Press)
Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law by Bruce Jackson (Atria)	On Freedom Road: Bicycle Explorations and Reckonings on the Underground Railroad by David Goodrich (Pegasus Books)	Saying It Loud: 1966 ― The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement by Mark Whitaker (Simon & Schuster)
School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness by Jarvis R. Givens (Beacon Press)	Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson by Ashley Brown (Oxford University Press)	Transformations in Africana Studies edited by Odebayo Oyebade (Routledge)