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.

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Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics by George Yancy and Janine Jones (Lexington Books)	Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement by Minrose Gwin (University of Georgia Press)	Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolition in the British West Indies by Claudius K. Fergus (Louisiana State University Press)
The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military by Rawn James Jr. (Bloomsbury Press)	The Moment of Racial Sight: A History by Irene Tucker (University of Chicago Press)	The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform by W. Caleb McDaniel (Louisiana State University Press)
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis (Beacon Press)	The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 by Jolie A. Sheffer (Rutgers University Press)	Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America by Antonio Lopez (New York University Press)