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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America’s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark by Nikki M. Taylor (University Press of Kentucky)	Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America by Marcus Anthony Hunter (Oxford University Press)	Black Television Travels: African American Media Around the Globe by Timothy Havens (New York University Press)
Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City by Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson (University of Chicago Press)	Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature by Daylanne K. English (University of Minnesota Press)	Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter From Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation by Jonathan Rieder (Bloomsbury Press)
Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature by Jodi Eicher-Levine (New York University Press)	To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville by Robert Cassanello (University Press of Florida)	Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies by Carmen Kynard (State University of New York Press)