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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Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives Across the Atlantic World by Randy J. Sparks (Harvard University Press)	Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons by Jane Lazarre (Duke University Press)	Born Out of Struggle: Critical Race Theory, School Creation, and the Politics of Interruption by David Stovall (State University of New York Press)
Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States edited by Brian Behnken (University of Georgia Press)	Diversity in Practice: Race, Gender, and Class in Legal and Professional Careers edited by Spencer Headworth et al. (Cambridge University Press)	Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 by Hilary Green (Fordham University Press)
Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League by Douglas M. Branson (University of Nebraska Press)	Governing With Words: The Political Dialogue on Race, Public Policy, and Inequality in America by Daniel Q. Gillion (Cambridge University Press)	Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride (Spiegel & Grau)
Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits by Ansley T. Erickson (University of Chicago Press)	My Triumph Over Prejudice: A Memoir by Martha Wyatt-Rossignol (University Press of Mississippi)	Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era by Michael Tesler (University of Chicago Press)
Race and the Death Penalty: The Legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp edited by David P. Keys and R.J. Maratea (Lynne Rienner Publishers)	Symbols, Substance and Hope: Race and the Obama Administration by Andra Gillespie (Bloomsbury Academic)	Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race by Patrick Wolfe (Verso Books)