Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

December 3, 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.

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African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe by Mhoze Chikowere (Indiana University Press)	Culturally Responsive Leadership in Higher Education: Promoting Access, Equity, and Improvement by Lorri Sanataria and Andres Sanataria (Routledge)	Healing the African Body: British Medicine in West Africa, 1800-1860 by John Rankin (University of Missouri Press)
Hook: A Memoir by Randall Horton (Augury Books)	Moments of Impact: Injury, Racialized Memory and Reconciliation in College Football by Jaime Schultz (University of Nebraska Press)	New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison edited by Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears (Louisiana State University Press)
Prefiguring Postblackness: Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s by Carol Bunch Davis (University Press of Mississippi)	Representations of Black Women in the Media: The Damnation of Black Womanhood by Marquita Marie Gammage (Routledge)	Right to Revolt: The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi’s Central Piney Woods by Patricia Michelle Boyett (University Press of Mississippi)
The Antidote: Healing America From the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood by Jesse Lee Peterson (WND Books)	Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City by Michael Maly and Heather Dalmage (Temple University Press)	What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South by Dell Upton (Yale University Press)
What Works at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Nine Strategies for Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates by Tiffany Beth Mfume (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide: Black Athletes at BYU and Beyond by Darron T. Smith (Rowman & Littlefield)	Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean edited by Renee Larrier and Ousseina Alidou (Lexington Books)