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. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families Since Reconstruction edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan R. Bennett (University Press of Florida)	Claude McKay’s Liberating Narrative: Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections by Tatiana A. Tagirova-Daley (Peter Lang Publishing)	Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams (University of North Carolina Press)
Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood Among Black Women by Mignon R. Moore (University of California Press)	Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress by Becky Pettit (Russell Sage Foundation)	Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora: Dublin, New Orleans, Paris by Elisa Joy White (Indiana University Press)
Race in Translation: Culture Wars Around the Postcolonial Atlantic by Robert Stam and Ella Shohat (New York University Press)	Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts by Dawn Rae Flood (University of Illinois Press)	The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing’s First African American Champion by William Gildea (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)