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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Art for Equality: The NAACP’s Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights by Jenny Woodley (University Press of Kentucky)	Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism: Europe, Africa, and North America edited by R. Drew Smith et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora by Bénédicte Boisseron (University Press of Florida)
Diverse Pathways: Race and the Incorporation of Black, White, and Arab-Origin Africans in the United States by Kevin J.A. Thomas (Michigan State University Press)	Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS by Sanyu A. Mojola (University of California Press)	Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History by Kristina Wirtz (University of Chicago Press)
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason L. Riley (Encounter Books)	Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature by Reginald A. Wilburn (Duquesne University Press)	Prudence Crandall’s Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education by Donald E. Williams Jr. (Wesleyan University Press)
Religio-Political Narratives in the United States: From Martin Luther King, Jr. to Jeremiah Wright by Angela Sims et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	School Leadership in a Diverse Society: Helping Schools Prepare All Students for Success by Carlos R. McCray and Floyd D. Beachum (Information Age Publishing)	The Black Power Movement and American Social Work by Joyce M. Bell (Columbia University Press)
The Pekin: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black-Owned Theater by Thomas Bauman (University of Illinois Press)	The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent’s Settlements and Beyond edited by Boulou Ebandade B’beri et al. (University of Toronto Press)	The Rhizome of Blackness: A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming by Awad Ibrahim (Peter Lang International)
The Road to Black Ned’s Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier by Turk McCleskey (University of Virginia Press)	To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement by Christopher Cameron (Kent State University Press)	Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880-2012 by Martin Kilson (Harvard University Press)