Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

June 5, 2014

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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African American Male Students in PreK-12 Schools: Informing Research, Policy, and Practice edited by James Moore III and Chance W. Lewis (Emerald Group Publishing)	Black Music, Black Poetry: Blues and Jazz’s Impact on African American Versification edited by Gordon Thompson (Ashgate Publishing)	Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City by Sonia Song-Ha Lee (University of North Carolina Press)
Building the Beloved Community: Philadelphia’s Interracial Civil Rights Organizations and Race Relations, 1930-1970 by Stanley Keith Arnold (University Press of Mississippi)	Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe by Matthew Pratt Guterl (Harvard University Press)	Research Methods in Africana Studies by Serie McDougal III (Peter Lang International)
Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing by Jeffrey A. McCune Jr. (University of Chicago Press)	Slavery and Freedom in Savannah edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry (University of Georgia Press)	Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915 by K. Stephen Prince (University of North Carolina Press)
The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica’s Plantation System by James A. Delle (Cambridge University Press)	The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne (New York University Press)	The Spirit of an Activist: The Life and Work of Isaiah DeQuincey Newman edited by Sadye L.M. Logan (University of South Carolina Press)
The Wrongs of the Right: Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama by Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks (New York University Press)	Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet edited by Ivy G. Wilson (University of Iowa Press)	X: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (Fordham University Press)