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

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.

Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders by Philip E. Muehlenbeck (Oxford University Press)	Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India by Nico Slate (Harvard University Press)	Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights by Erik S. Gellman (University of North Carolina Press)
Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (Rutgers University Press)	Georgia Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of the New South by Tim S.R. Boyd (University Press of Florida)	God’s Fields: Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian Wachovia by Leland Ferguson (University Press of Florida)
Making History: African Collectors and the Canon of African Art by Sylvester Okwondu Ogbechie (Harry N. Abrams)	Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America by Timothy Parrish (University of Massachusetts Press)	Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism by Jodi Melamed (University of Minnesota Press)
Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America by George Derek Musgrove (University of Georgia Press)	The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas by Manual Barcia (Louisiana State University Press)	Word, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans by Valerie C. Cooper (University of Virginia Press)