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.

Across the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati by Mark Curnutte (University of Cincinnati Press)	America’s First Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur, and the Early Fight for Civil Rights by Jerry Mikorenda (Lyons Press)	Archy Lee’s Struggle for Freedom: The True Story of California Gold, the Nation’s Tragic March Toward Civil War, and a Young Black Man’s Fight for Liberty by Brian McGinty (Lyons Press)
Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion by Melissa J. Wilde (University of California Press)	Fostering Collaborations Between African American Communities and Educational Institutions edited by Patrice Wynette Jones (Information Science Reference)	Global Epidemics, Local Implications: African Immigrants and the Ebola Crisis in Dallas by Kevin J.A. Thomas (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Literary Ambition and the African American Novel by Michael Nowlin (Cambridge University Press)	New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race edited by Harriet Pollack (University Press of Mississippi)	Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers by Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham (Rutgers University Press)
Schools of Our Own: Chicago’s Golden Age of Black Private Education by Worth Kamili Hayes (Northwestern University Press)	Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement by Paul J. Polgar (University of North Carolina Press)	Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana by Sophie White (Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press)