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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The American Civil Rights Movement 1865–1950: Black Agency and People of Good Will by Russell Brooker (Lexington Books)	Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique by Robert F. Reid-Pharr (New York University Press)	At Mama’s Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White by April Ryan (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World by Cassander L. Smith (Louisiana State University Press)	Boys and Men in African American Families edited by Linda Burton et al. (Springer)	Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina: Volume 1: Dawn of the Movement Era, 1955–1967 edited by Marvin Ira Lare (University of South Carolina Press)
Critical Black Studies Reader edited by Rochelle Brock et al. (Peter Lang Publishers)	Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio by Nikki M. Taylor (Ohio University Press)	How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation by Aida Levy-Hussen (New York University Press)
John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary by David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason (Oxford University Press)	Race and Colorism in Education edited by Carla Monroe (Routledge)	Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism by Nancy Wang Yuen (Rutgers University Press)