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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Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 by David Samuel Torres-Rouff (Yale University Press)	Changing Minds, If Not Hearts: Political Remedies for Racial Conflict by James M. Glaser and Timothy J. Ryan (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Freedom’s Pragmatist: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights by Sylvia Ellis (University Press of Florida)
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch (Harper)	Protest and Propaganda: W.E.B. Du Bois, the Crises, and American History edited by Amy Helene Kirschke and Phillip Luke Sinitiere (University of Missouri Press)	The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown’s Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz (Cornell University Press)
They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her by Carolyn Marie Wilkins (University of Missouri Press)	Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition: The Invention of an Aesthetic by Justine Baillie (Bloomsbury Academic)	Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890 by Linda Williams Reese (Texas Tech University Press)