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New Books in African American Studies

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  1. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City with Elijah Anderson (Norton, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  2. Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery with Christa Dierksheide and Nicholas Guyatt (Belknap Press, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  3. Forgive Us Our Debts: How Black Churches Use Bankruptcy to Survive with Pamela Foohey (U Chicago Press, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  4. Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block with Talitha LeFlouria (Beacon Press, 2022) – New Books in African American Studies
  5. An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America with Keri Leigh Merritt (St. Martin's Press, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  6. Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  7. The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri with John Craig Hammond (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) – New Books in African American Studies
  8. Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children with Stacey Patton (Beacon Press, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  9. Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control with Kelly Lytle Hernández (Norton, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  10. Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing with Rahim Kurwa (U California Press, 2025) – New Books in African American Studies
  11. Let the Oppressed Go Free: Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America with Nicholas P. Wood (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) – New Books in African American Studies
  12. How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington with Marcia Chatelain – New Books in African American Studies
  13. Apocalyptic Abolitionism: How Millennialists Helped Abolish Slavery and Reform America with Kevin M. Burton (NYU Press, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  14. Tess Chakkalakal, "A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt" (St. Martin's Press, 2025) – New Books in African American Studies
  15. Randal Maurice Jelks, "My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy" (Broadleaf Books, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  16. Bryant Simon, "For Customers Only: Public Bathrooms and the Making of American Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  17. Catherine A John, "Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice" (Duke UP, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  18. Samantha Barbas, "Hate Speech: The Legal and Cultural History of an American Dilemma" (U California Press, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  19. Justin Ellen, "Better Than Grandma's: Comfort Desserts We Grew Up Loving" (Rolling Pin Press, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  20. R. Douglas Hurt, "The Country People: An Agricultural History of the American Revolution" (U Georgia Press, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  21. Christopher Freeburg, "Soul: A Brief History of Black Cultural Life" (Yale UP, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  22. Patrick Griffin, "The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World" (Yale UP, 2023) – New Books in African American Studies
  23. Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North " (FSG, 2025) – New Books in African American Studies
  24. Lucas L. Johnson II, "Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" (Broadleaf Books, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  25. Deirdre Mayer Dougherty, "Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland" (Rutgers UP, 2025) – New Books in African American Studies
  26. Kamau Ware, "Battle in the Margins: Black Experiences in New York City During the American Revolution" (Black Gotham Experience) – New Books in African American Studies
  27. Courtney Weikle‑Mills, "Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies
  28. Bernadette Ludwig, "Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America" (Rutgers UP, 2025) – New Books in African American Studies
  29. Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" (HarperCollins, 2021) – New Books in African American Studies
  30. Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026) – New Books in African American Studies