Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on April 13, 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:

Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (University of Chicago Press)	Behind the Screen: Tap Dance, Race, and Invisibility During Hollywood’s Golden Age by Brynn W. Shiovitz (Oxford University Press)	Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western by Mia Mask (University of Illinois Press)
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley (University of North Carolina Press)	Forgotten African American Firsts: An Encyclopedia of Pioneering History by Hans A. Ostrom and David Macey Jr. (Greenwood)	Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present by Ruth Fine et al. (Rizzoli Electa)
Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing by Dionne Ford (Bold Type Books)	Jubilee’s Experiment: The British West Indies and American Abolitionism by Dexter J. Gabriel (Cambridge University Press)	The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by Leta McCollough Seletzky (Counterpoint)
San Mateo de Cangrejos: Historical Notes on a Self-Emancipated Black Community in Puerto Rico by Gilberto Aponte-Torres (State University of New York Press)	The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas by Daniel Kiel (Stanford University Press)	The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War by Chad L. Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)