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.


After Freedom Summer:
How Race Realigned Mississippi Politics, 1965-1986

by Chris Danielson
(University Press of Florida)

Inequality:
A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender

by Lisa A. Keister and Darby E. Southgate
(Cambridge University Press)

Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943
by Lawrence Schenbeck
(University Press of Mississippi)
Standing on Both Feet:
Voices of Older Mixed-Race Americans

by Cathy J. Tashiro
(Paradigm Publishers)

Teenie Harris,
Photographer: Image, Memory, History

by Cheryl Finley et al.
(University of Pittsburgh Press)

To Free a Family:
The Journey of Mary Walker

by Sydney Nathans
(Harvard University Press)

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