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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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweety (Picador)	Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide by Joy-Ann Reid (William Morrow)	Lines of Scrimmage: A Story of Football, Race and Redemption by Joe Oestreich and Scott Pleasant (University Press of Mississippi)
Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist by Amina Hassan (University of Oklahoma Press)	Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson (Pantheon)	Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs by Lu Vickers and Cynthia Wilson-Graham (University Press of Florida)
Scripturalizing Revelation: An African American Postcolonial Reading of Empire by Lynne St. Clair Darden (SBL Press)	Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era by Laura E. Free (Cornell University Press)	The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America by D. Watkins (Hot Books)
The “Colored Hero” of Harper’s Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War Against Slavery by Steven Lubet (Cambridge University Press)	The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill: Legendary African American Desperado by Larry L. Massey (University Press of Florida)	The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken by Wendell Pierce (Riverhead Books)