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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Achieving Education for All: Dilemmas in System-Wide Reforms and Learning Outcomes in Africa edited by Ishmael I. Munene (Lexington Books)	Blacktino Queer Performance edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera (Duke University Press)	Health Communication and Breast Cancer Among Black Women: Culture, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength by Annette D. Madlock Gatison (Lexington Books)
Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress by Joseph R. Winters (Duke University Press)	Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith (Nation Books)	Race and the Black Male Subculture: The Lives of Toby Waller by William T. Hoston (Palgrave Macmillan)
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy by LaShawn Harris (University of Illinois Press)	The African American Urban Male’s Journey to Success: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Social Class by Mead Goedert (Lexington Books)	The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation by Benjamin P. Fagan (University of Georgia Press)
The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World edited by Philip Misevich and Kristin Mann (University of Rochester Press)	The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby (W.W. Norton & Co.)	This Woman’s Work: The Writing and Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell by Osizwe Raena Jamila Harwell (University Press of Mississippi)