Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

May 8, 2014

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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Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing by Nancy D. Wadsworth (University of Virginia Press)	Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black by James E. Clyburn (University of South Carolina Press)	Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education: Emerging Perspectives on Institutional Transformation edited by Daryl G. Smith (Routledge)
Freedom’s Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration by Margaret Garb (University of Chicago Press)	Let Us Fight as Free Men: Black Soldiers and Civil Rights by Christine Knauer (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Out of Bounds: Racism and the Black Athlete by Lori Latrice Martin (Praeger Publishers)
Outsmarting Apartheid: An Oral History of South Africa’s Cultural and Educational Exchange With the United States, 1960-1999 edited by Daniel Whitman (State University of New York Press)	Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Postracial Obama Age edited by Sandra L. Barnes et al. (State University of New York Press)	River of Hope: Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865-1954 by Elizabeth Gritter (University Press of Kentucky)
Shaping the Future of African American Film: Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers by Monica White Mdounou (Rutgers University Press)	Softly, With Feeling: Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music by Edward Berger (Temple University Press)	Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915 by K. Stephen Prince (University of North Carolina Press)
Surviving Katrina: The Experiences of Low-Income African-American Women by Jessica Warner Pardee (Lynne Rienner Publishers)	The Great Black Migration: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic edited by Steven Reich (Greenwood Publishing)	The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations edited by Nicolas Bancel et al. (Routledge)
The (Re-)Making of a Black American: Tracing the Racial and Ethnic Socialization of Caribbean American Youth by Chonika Coleman-King (Peter Lang International)	The Spirit of an Activist: The Life and Work of Isaiah DeQuincey Newman edited by Sadye L.M. Logan (University of South Carolina Press)	The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption by Matthew W. Hughey (Temple University Press)