Recent Books That May Be 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.

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A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta by Wendy Hamand Venet (Yale University Press)	African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship by Simone A. James Alexander (University Press of Florida)	Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship by Charles Epp (University of Chicago Press)
Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack by Katherine C. Mooney (Harvard University Press)	The Politics of Race, Class and Special Education by Sally Tomlinson (Routledge)	The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War by James Oakes (W.W. Norton)