Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

May 2, 2012

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.

Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade by Gabrielle Hecht (MIT Press)	Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions edited by Christopher M. Bell (Michigan State University Press)	Community Lost: The State, Civil Society, and Displaced Survivors of Hurricane Katrina by Roger J. Angel et al. (Cambridge University Press)
Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction edited by Susan T. Fiske and Hazel Rose Markus (Russell Sage Foundation)	For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, Medicine, and Power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848 by Niklas Thode Jensen (Museum Tusculanum Press)	“If You Were Only White”: The Life of Leroy “Satchel” Paige by Donald Spivey (University of Missouri Press)
Political Antislavery Discourse and American Literature of the 1850s by David Grant (University of Delaware Press)	Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago by Preston H. Smith III (University of Minnesota Press)	The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City edited by Judit N. DeSena et al. (Lexington Books)