Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on March 23, 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:

Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee by Crystal Marie Moten (Vanderbilt University Press)	Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation by Maggie Adler and Maurita Poole (University of California Press)	Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership by Monique Moultrie (Duke University Press)
In the Shadow of The Birth of a Nation: Racism, Reception and Resistance edited by Melvyn Stokes and Paul McEwan (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War by Des Ekin (Prometheus)	The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington’s Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan’s America by Gordon K. Mantler (University of North Carolina Press)
Private No More: The Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry edited by Sharon A. Roger Hepburn (University of Georgia Press)	Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels by Lin Knutson (Lexington Books)	The State You See: How Government Visibility Creates Political Distrust and Racial Inequality by Aaron J. Rosenthal (University of Michigan Press)