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.

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Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City by Michael Woodsworth (Harvard University Press)	New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren (Liveright)	The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland edited by DaMaris B. Hill (Lexington Books)
The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Jon N. Hale (Columbia University Press)	The Ground on Which I Stand: Tamina, a Freedmen’s Town by Marti Corn (Texas A&M University Press)	The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer (William Morrow)