Recent Books 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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Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson edited by Sandra G. Shannon and Sandra L. Richards (Modern Language Association of America)	Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses by Lawrence Ross (St. Martin’s Press)	Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith (Basic Books)
Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority by Steve Phillips (The New Press)	Delayed But Not Denied: Examining Connections Between Postsecondary Education and Singlehood for African American Women by Darla M. Turner (CreateSpace)	Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America by Kali Nicole Gross (Oxford University Press)
I Believe to My Soul: Trials and Triumphs of an African American Male Growing Up in America by Jabali Zuberi Limbani (AuthorHouse)	Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital by Joan Quigley (Oxford University Press)	Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond edited by Evelyn Louise Crawford and MaryLouise Patterson (University of California Press)
Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who’s Next by L.A. Reid (Harper)	Sketches of Slave Life and From and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit by Peter Randolph (West Virginia University Press)	Solomon Northup’s Kindred: The Kidnapping of Free Citizens Before the Civil War by David Fiske (Praeger)
Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage Among African Americans and Latinos by W. Bradford Wilcox and Nicholas H. Wolfing (Oxford University Press)	The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family by Gail Lumet Buckley (Atlantic Monthly Press)	The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott (Alfred A. Knopf)	The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping by Lucy Maddox (Temple University Press)	We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination by Russell Rickford (Oxford University Press)