Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

March 24, 2016

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 Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods edited by Alice Bellagamba et al. (Cambridge University Press)	Black Feminist Literary Criticism edited by Karla Kovalova (Peter Lang Publishing)	Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland by Bridget Ford (University of North Carolina Press)
Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout by Lynn Mie Itagaki (University of Minnesota Press)	Fractured: Race Relations in "Post-Racial" American Life by Helen Fox (Peter Lang Publishers)	Game Theory and Minorities in American Literature by Michael Wainwright (Palgrave Macmillan)
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by Kevin Mumford (University of North Carolina Press)	Resounding Afro Asia: Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration by Tamara Roberts (Oxford University Press)	Shadows of a Sunbelt City: The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin by Eliot M. Tretter (University of Georgia Press)
The African American Male School Adaptability Crisis: Its Source and Solution Planted in the African American Garden of Eden by Joe L. Rempson (AuthorHouse)	The Banjo: America’s African Instrument by Laurent Dubois (Belknap Press)	The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature edited by Ezra Tawil (Cambridge University Press)
The Cost of Racism for People of Color: Contextualizing Experiences of Discrimination edited by Alvin N. Alvarez et al. (American Psychological Association)	The Press and Slavery in America, 1791-1859: The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement by Brian Gabrial (University of South Carolina Press)	The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life edited by Jennifer A. Williamson (Syracuse University Press)