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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As We Saw It: The Story of Integration at the University of Texas at Austin edited by Gregory J. Vincent, Virginia A. Cumberbatch & Leslie A. Blair (University of Texas Press)	Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America by George Yancy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Born to Serve: A History of Texas Southern University by Merline Pitre (University of Oklahoma Press)
Edna Lewis: At the Table With an American Original by Sara B. Franklin (University of North Carolina Press)	In Search of Our Warrior Mothers: Women Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement by LaDonna Forsgren (Northwestern University Press)	Optimism at All Costs: Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama’s America by Lessie B. Branch (University of Massachusetts Press)
Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations edited by Whitney Stewart et al. (University of Georgia Press)	The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism by Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand (Louisiana State University Press)	The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought by David A. Varet (University of Chicago Press)