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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African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled edited by Jennifer R. Curry and M. Ann Shillingford (Lexington Books)	Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation by Nicholas Sammond (Duke University Press)	Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity by Mark S. Warner (University Press of Florida)
Free Blacks in Antebellum Texas edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Milton S. Jordan (University of North Texas Press)	Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 by Thomas Brown and Leah Sims (Lexington Books)	Guardians of the Tradition by James De Lorenzi (University of Rochester Press)
Harriet Tubman: Slavery, the Civil War, and Civil Rights in the 19th Century by Kristen T. Oertel (Routledge)	Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine by Otis Trotter (Ohio University Press)	Philosophy of African American Studies: Nothing Left of Blackness by Stephen C. Ferguson (Palgrave Macmilan)
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Will Haygood (Alfred A. Knopf)	Suicide and Eating Disordered Behavior Among Individuals of African Descent: Acculturation and Psychopathology by Daniel Leighton Hollar (Xlibris)	Swingin’ on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles by Peter Vacher (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States by Ira Berlin (Harvard University Press)	These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship edited by A. Yemisi Jimoh and Francoise Hamlin (University Press of Florida)	Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry by Gabriel N. Mendes (Cornell University Press)