Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African-American Scholars

October 24, 2011

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic by Melina Pappademos (University of North Carolina Press)	Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954 by Zoe Burkholder (Oxford University Press)	David Baker: A Legacy in Music by Monika Herzig (Indiana University Press)
Historical Foundations of Black Reflective Sociology by John H. Stanfield II (Left Coast Press)	Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood Among Black Women by Mignon R. Moore) (University of California Press)	Language Across Difference: Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools by Django Paris (Cambridge University Press)
Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Katherine Sloan (Columbia University Press)	Race and US Foreign Policy: The African-American Foreign Affairs Network by Mark Ledwidge (Routledge)	Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement Among African American Youth by Na’ilah Suad Nasir (Stanford University Press)
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry by Evie Shockley (University of Iowa Press)	Representing Black Music Culture: Then, Now, and When Again? by William C. Banfield (Scarecrow Press)	Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality by Richard Thompson Ford (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest by Sandra M. Chait (University of Washington Press)	Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins by Thomas G. Smith (Beacon Press)	The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples by Stephan Palmie and Francisco A. Scarano (University of Chicago Press)