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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Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Souls of Public Higher Education by Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier (Johns Hopkins University Press)	Contested Transformation: Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in 21st Century America by Carol Hardy-Fanta et al. (Cambridge University Press)	Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success edited by Lori D. Patton and Natasha N. Croom (Routledge)
Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile by D. Marvin Jones (Praeger)	Fight for Old DC: George Preston Marshall, the Integration of the Washington Redskins, and the Rise of a New NFL by Andrew O’Toole (University of Nebraska Press)	First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles by Damien M. Sojoyner (University of Minnesota Press)
Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives by Janet Neary (Fordham University Press)	Literacy as Moral Obligation Among African Americans in the Rural Southeast by Amy Johnson Lachuk (Lexington Books)	Mississippi: The Long, Hot Summer by William McCord (University Press of Mississippi)
North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South by Mark Speitz and Deborah Willis (J. Paul Getty Museum)	Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation by Lisa M. Corrigan (Univerity Press of Mississippi)	Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race edited by H. Samy Alim et al. (Oxford University Press)
Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family by Daniel Bergner (Thorndike Press)	The American Debate Over Slavery, 1760–1865: An Anthology of Sources edited by Howard L. Lubert et al. (Hackett Publishing)	The Education of African Canadian Children: Critical Perspectives edited by Awad Ibrahim and Ali A. Abdi (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865-1920 by David E. Goldberg (Fordham University Press)	Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America by Douglas R. Egerton (Basic Books)	Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure edited by Patricia A. Matthew (University of North Carolina Press)