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 Human Necklace: The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall’s Fiction by Moira Ferguson (State University of New York Press)	Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing by DeLinda Marzette (Peter Lang Publishing)	Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora by Shana L. Redmond (New York University Press)
Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way by Stewart F. Lane (Square One Publishers)	Black-Brown Solidarity: Racial Politics in the New Gulf South by John D. Marquez (University of Texas Press)	Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South by Yasuhiro Katagiri (Louisiana State University Press)
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West by Michael K. Johnson (University Press of Mississippi)	Jazz in the Time of the Novel: The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture by Bruce Evan Barnhart (University of Alabama Press)	My Dear Boy: Carrie Hughes’s Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 edited by Carmaletta M. Williams and John Edgar Tidwell (University of Georgia Press)
Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP by Yvonne Ryan (University Press of Kentucky)	Tough on Hate? The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes by Clara S. Lewis (Rutgers University Press)	Understanding Clarence Thomas: The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Restoration by Ralph A. Rossum (University Press of Kansas)