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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A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War by Stephen V. Ash (Hill and Wang)	African American Children and Families in Child Welfare: Cultural Adaptation of Services by Ramona Denby and Carla M. Curtis (Columbia University Press)	Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 by Jonathan Scott Holloway (University of North Carolina Press)
Philadelphia Freedoms: Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King by Michael Awkward (Temple University Press)	Race Harmony and Black Progress: Jack Woofter and the Interracial Cooperation Movement by Mark Ellis (Indiana University Press)	Tell It With Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial by Sarah Greenough et al.(Yale University Press)
That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia by Aricia L. Coleman (Indiana University Press)	The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa edited by Ebenezer Obadare (Springer Publishing)	They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her by Carolyn Marie Wilkins (University of Missouri Press)