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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Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity by Simone C. Drake (Louisiana State University Press)	Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton, California by Emily E. Straus (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America by Sheryll Cashin (Beacon Press)
Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare by Marian S. Harris (Columbia University Press)	Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War by Daniel S. Lucks (University Press of Kentucky)	Writing Through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature by Ayesha K. Hardison (University of Virginia Press)