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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Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State by Frederick Cooper (Harvard University Press)	Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left by Erin Royston Battat (University of North Carolina Press)	God and Blackness: Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church by Andrea C. Abrams (New York University Press)
Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality by Jeffrey T. Sammons and John H. Morrow Jr. (University Press of Kansas)	Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia by Abigail Perkiss (Cornell University Press)	Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low by C. Riley Snorton (University of Minnesota Press)
Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It by Lisa Bloom (Counterpoint)	The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka by Kathy Lou Schultz (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & Style by Nelson George (William Morrow)