Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

February 12, 2015

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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy: From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama edited by Linda Heywood et al. (University of Illinois Press)	Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way by Stewart F. Lane (Square One Publishers)	Black Ice: The Val James Story by Val James with John Gallagher (ECW Press)
Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (State University of New York Press)	For Jobs and Freedom: Selected Speeches and Writings of A. Philip Randolph edited by Andrew E. Kersten and David Lucander (University of Massachusetts Press)	Freedom as Marronage by Neil Roberts (University of Chicago Press)
Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty by Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier (Oxford University Press)	Origins of the Dream: Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric by W. Jason Miller (University Press of Florida)	Power Forward: My Presidential Education by Reggie Love (Simon & Schuster)
Racial Battle Fatigue: Insights from the Front Lines of Social Justice Advocacy edited by Jennifer L. Martin (Praeger)	The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (Princeton University Press)	The Trouble with Post-Blackness edited by Houston A. Baker and K. Merinda Simmons (Columbia University Press)