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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50 Billion Dollar Boss: African-American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership by Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman (Palgrave Macmillan)	American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies: A Reference Guide by Kerry Walters (ABC-CLIO)	Between Fetters and Freedom: African American Baptists Since Emancipation edited by Edward R. Crowther and Keith Harper (Mercer University Press)
Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment by Michael Javen Fortner (Harvard University Press)	Encountering Empire: African American Missionaries in Colonial Africa, 1900-1939 by Elisabeth Engel (Franz Steiner Verlag)	Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (University of Chicago Press)
Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power by Walter C. Rucker (Indiana University Press)	Memories of the Enslaved: Voices from the Slave Narratives edited by Spencer R. Crew et al. (Praeger)	Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexu ality in Caribbean Culture by Angelique V. Nixon (University Press of Mississippi)
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Roaring Brook Press)	Son of Virginia: A Life in America’s Political Arena by L. Douglas Wilder (Lyons Press)	The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette (Chicago Review Press)
The People’s Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today by Dave Hoekstra (Chicago Review Press)	The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary by Kimberly Juanita Brown (Duke University Press)	Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color: The Past, Present, and Future of One Historically Black College by Andrew Feiler (University of Georgia Press)