Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on March 2, 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:

The Activist Collector: Lida Clanton Broner’s 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa by Christa Clarke (Rutgers University Press)	Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created by Nick Tabor (St. Martin’s Press)	Black, Brilliant and Dyslexic edited by Marcia Brissett-Bailey (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
Black Popular Culture and Social Justice edited by Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey and Jonathan I. Gayles (Routledge)	Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern Literature by David A. Davis (University of Virginia Press)	Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers by William C. Banfield (University of Illinois Press)
Old Southwest to Old South: Mississippi, 1798-1840 by Mike Bunn and Clay Williams (University Press of Mississippi)	Revolution to Evolution: The Story of the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity at the University of Washington by Emile Pitre (University of Washington)	Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State: Revisiting My Old Kentucky Home by Gerald L. Smith (University Press of Kentucky)
Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature by Kelly Ross (Oxford University Press)	Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire by Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa (University of California Press)	The State of the Black Family: Sixty Years of Tragedies and Failures — and New Initiatives Offering Hope by Robert Cherry (Emancipation Press)