Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African-American Scholars

The JBHE Weekly Bulletin regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.

African American Children and Mental Health edited by Nancy E. Hill et al. (Praeger Publishers)

Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York University Press)

Bully Mother: The Story of Oumou Traore by Oumou Traore (AuthorHouse)

Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation by John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason (University of Virginia Press)

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts (The New Press)

Hollywood’s African American Films: The Transition to Sound by Ryan Jay Friedman (Rutgers University Press)

Marching with Dr. King: Ralph Helstein and the United Packinghouse Workers of America by Cyril Robinson (Praeger Publishers)

Multicultural Student Services on Campus: Building Bridges, Revisioning Community edited by Dafina Lazarus Stewart (Stylus Publishing)

No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor by Cindy Hahamovitch (Princeton University Press)

Race in American Science Fiction by Isiah Lavender (Indiana University Press)

Rosa Parks: A Biography by Joyce A. Hanson (Greenwood Press)

The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking by Joel Quirk (University of Pennsylvania Press)

Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity by Paul Harvey (Rowman & Littlefield)

Two Centuries of Black Louisville: A Photographic History by Mervin Aubespin et al. (Butler Books)

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