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 Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist by Linda Janet Holmes (Praeger)	African American War Heroes by James Brent Martin (ABC-CLIO)	Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool by John Belchem (Liverpool University Press)
Beyond Banneker: Black Mathematicians and the Paths to Excellence by Erica N. Walker (State University of New York Press)	Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White (Louisiana State University Press)	Good White People: The Problem With Middle-Class White Anti-Racism by Shannon Sullivan (State University of New York Press)
Lifting My Voice: A Memoir by Barbara Hendricks (Chicago Review Press)	Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis by Karsonya Wise Whitehead (University of South Carolina Press)	On Africa’s Lands: The Forgotten Stories of Two Lincoln Educated Missionaries in Liberia edited by Cheryl Renee Gooch (Lincoln University Press)
Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora: Black Women Writing and Performing by Mae G. Henderson (Oxford University Press)	This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr. (Basic Books)	When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime by Ryan A. Swanson (University of Nebraska Press)