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.

Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade by Charles Freger (Thames & Hudson)	Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution by Myron Magnet (Encounter Books)	Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings (New York University Press)
Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers by Donald Bogle (Running Press)	Neo-Race Realities in the Obama Era by Heather E. Harris (State University of New York Press)	New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent edited by Margaret Busby (Amistad)
Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South edited by Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart (University of Georgia Press)	The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero by Michael Kranish (Scribner)	Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon by Quincy D. Newell (Oxford University Press)