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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After War Times: An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida edited by Daniel R. Weinfeld (University of Alabama Press)	Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy by Darryl Pinckney (New York Review Books)	Ed King’s Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer by Ed King and Trent Watts (University Press of Mississippi)
Historical Dictionary of African American Television by Kathleen Fern-Banks and Anne Burford-Johnson (Rowman & Littlefield)	Intersectionality & Higher Education: Theory, Research, & Praxis edited by Donald Mitchell Jr. (Peter Lang Publishers)	Making Race in the Courtroom: The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans by Kenneth R. Asiakson (New York University Press)
Retrieving the Human: Reading Paul Gilroy edited by Rebecka Rutledge Fisher and Jay Garcia (State University of New York Press)	Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War’s First African American Combat Unit by Ian Michael Spurgeon (University of Oklahoma Press)	Spike Lee: Finding the Story and Forcing the Issue by Jason P. Vest (Praeger)
The Marcus Garvey and United Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XII: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1920-1921 edited by Robert A. Hill (Duke University Press)	The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume VII: To Save the Soul of America, January 1961-August 1962 edited by Clayborne Carson and Tenisha Hart Armstrong (University of California Press)	Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art by Rowland Abiodun (Cambridge University Press)