Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on May 11, 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:

An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era by Beth Bailey (University of North Carolina Press)	Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance: Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity edited by DeRon S. Williams et al. (Methuen Drama)	Female Subjectivity in African-American Women’s Poetry by Tanima Kumari (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
The First Kentucky Derby: Thirteen Black Jockeys, One Shady Owner, and the Little Red Horse That Wasn’t Supposed to Win by Mark Shrager (Eclipse Press)	Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey by Katherine C. Mooney (Yale University Press)	Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators From Reconstruction Through the Civil Rights Era edited by Derrick P. Aldrige et al. (University of South Carolina Press)
Voices from the South: Decolonial Perspectives in International Education edited by Andrea Rizzotti and Hector M. Cruz-Felician (Forum on Education Abroad)	When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age by Rob Eschmann (University of California Press)	You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix (Celadon Books)