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 Campaign of Quiet Persuasion: How the College Board Desegregated SAT Test Centers in the Deep South, 1960-1965 by Jan Bates Wheeler (Louisiana State University Press)	African American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism by Joy R. Bostic (Palgrave Macmillan)	Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago’s Literary Landscape by Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach (University of Illinois Press)
Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World edited by Retha Powers (Little Brown & Co.)	Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry by Matthew M. Heaton (Ohio University Press)	Black Women in Management: Paid Work and Family Formations by Diane Farmer (Palgrave Macmillan)
Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith by Trevor W. Coleman et al. (Wayne State University Press)	Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference by Jenny Shaw (University of Georgia Press)	High-Rise Stories: Voices From Chicago Public Housing edited by Audrey Petty (McSweeney’s)
On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative by Sue J. Kim (University of Texas Press)	Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition by Michael K. Honey (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka by Kathy Lou Schultz (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Iconography of Malcolm X by Graeme Abernethy (University Press of Kansas)	 The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers edited by Brian Dolinar (University of Illinois Press)	The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration edited by Deborah E. McDowell (University of Virginia Press)