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.
  Beyond the Slave Narrative: Politics, Sex, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution by Deborah Jenson (Liverpool University Press) |
  Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory by Harold Holzer (Harvard University Press) |
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  Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape edited by Drew A. Swanson (University of Georgia Press) |
  Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer by Kenneth W. Mack (Harvard University Press) |
  States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California’s Juvenile Justice System by Misoslava Chavez-Garcia (University of California Press) |
  Streetsmart, Schoolsmart: Urban Poverty and the Education of Adolescent Boys by Gilberto Q. Conchas and James Diego Vigil (Teachers College Press) |
  Women and Leadership in West Africa: Mothering the Nation and Humanizing the State by Filomina Chioma Steady (Palgrave Macmillan) |
I find “Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars” to be a very valuable feature in the JBHE Weekly Bulletin. I use this list to order books for the library.
Thanks for alerting us to the latest publications.