Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

August 21, 2013

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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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Clement (Hill and Wang)	Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939 by Justine McConnell (Oxford University Press)	Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights by Samuel G. Freedman (Simon & Schuster)
Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment by Jill A. McCorkel (New York University Press)	Cabin Pressure: African American Pilots, Flight Attendants, and Emotional Labor by Louwanda Evans (Rowman & Littlefield)	Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle Over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction by Stacey L. Smith (University of North Carolina Press)
Harry Truman and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Shogan (University Press of Kansas)	Hunting for “Dirtbags”: Why Cops Over-Police the Poor and Racial Minorities by Lori Beth Way and Ryan Patten (Northeastern University Press)	James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes by Noelle Morrissette (University of Iowa Press)
Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle by Ida E. Jones (The History Press)	Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 by Carolyn Renee Dupont (New York University Press)	NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936-1965 by Thomas Bynum (University of Tennessee Press)
Necessary Spaces: Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South by Saundra Murray Nettles (Information Age Publishing)	The Igbo Intellectual Tradition: Creative Conflict in African and African Diasporic Thought by Gloria Chuku (Palgrave Macmillan)	W. E. B. DuBois’s Exhibit of American Negroes: African Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century by Eugene F. Provenzo Jr. (Rowman & Littlefield)