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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At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South by Donald G. Mathews (Cambridge University Press)	Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism by Eric Lott (Harvard University Press)	Black Women and White Women in the Professions: Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender, 1960-1980 by Natalie J. Sokoloff (Routledge)
Carter G. Woodson: History, the Black Press, and Public Relations by Burnis R. Morris (University Press of Mississippi)	Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States by Natalie Masuoka (Oxford University Press)	Race and the Obama Administration: Substance, Symbols and Hope by Andra Gillespie (Manchester University Press)
Racism and the American Presidency: How Presidents Have Handled Racial Issues ― From Washington to Obama by Daryl A. Carter (Praeger)	Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power edited by Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley (D.A.P./Tate)	The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner (Princeton University Press)
We Believed We Were Immortal: Twelve Reporters Who Covered the 1962 Integration Crisis at Ole Miss by Kathleen Wickman (Yoknapatawpha Press)	We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality by Louis Moore (Praeger)	What Is This Thing Called Soul: Conversations on Black Culture and Jazz Education by Damani Phillips (Peter Lang International Publishers)